Big Tech Funding

Big Tech Funding - Keeping an eye on Big Tech's political influence with think tanks and advocacy groups.
What is Big Tech Funding?
'Big Tech Funding' is an extension for Chrome, helping Twitter users monitor Big Tech's political influence by revealing their funding towards think tanks, academic centers, and advocacy groups. The information is compiled from credible, public sources by American Principles Project and presented under relevant tweets.

Extension stats

Users: 559 ▼ -7
Rating: 3.67 (3)
Version: 1.3.0 (Last updated: 2022-05-22)
Creation date: 2021-07-12
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 44.40K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

The Big Tech Funding browser extension allows Twitter users to see disclosures under the tweets of users who are affiliated with think tanks, academic centers, and advocacy groups that are funded by Big Tech (e.g. Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook.)

The extension relies on publicly-available data sources, compiled by staff at American Principles Project, including company funding disclosures, nonprofit annual reports, IRS documents, and news stories. The information is available in aggregate at BigTechFunding.org.

User reviews

I dont see the disclosure thing when I go to twitter on my computer
by Matthew Kempf, 2021-07-19
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Big Tech Funding requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Big Tech Funding has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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