May 2, 2025
In a piece for Tech Policy Press, Senior Policy Analyst Gordon LaForge stresses the need to scrutinize Big Tech firms as foreign policy actors. Read the piece.
As a society, we need to understand and scrutinize the big tech firms not simply as companies whose products we use and whose business models are studied in business schools, but as foreign policy actors. The companies are unique in their power and reach, and they are not all alike. The public needs a clearer understanding of their various governance models, just as we study the political systems of different nation-states.