2026-02-27 10:41:24

The political earthquake is here: as social media turns into a Digital Wild West, governments are moving rapidly to regulate the digital landscape. The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez didn’t mince words while speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai: “Today, our children are exposed to a space they were never meant to navigate alone. A space of addiction, abuse, violence, pornography, manipulation, and more violence”. On this, few would disagree.

2026-02-23 12:01:05

This is the newsletter for February 2026 from the Foundation for Market Information Research to its relations, including the participants in its actions, its sympathizers, media professionals and app users.

2026-02-20 10:20:38

Rotterdam (Netherlands), Schleswig (Germany) – 23 February 2026 – The Dutch non-profit organisation ‘Stichting Onderzoek Marktinformatie (SOMI)’ has filed a second collective representation action for damages against Meta in Germany. The lawsuit is centred around the unlawful use of personal data collected from Instagram and Facebook users as well as non-users for the purpose of training Meta's AI systems.

2026-02-12 12:18:12

On February 5, 2025, SOMI filed redress proceedings against X before the Kammergericht in Berlin. A hearing in the matter has now been scheduled. The hearing will be open to the public, and we cordially invite members of the press, interested participants, and the general public to attend.

2026-02-05 11:52:46

This is the newsletter for February 2026 from the Foundation for Market Information Research to its relations, including the participants in its actions, its sympathizers, media professionals and app users.

2026-01-14 11:43:08

This is the newsletter for January 2026 from the Foundation for Market Information Research to its relations, including the participants in its actions, its sympathizers, media professionals and app users.

2025-12-18 10:24:35

SOMI has filed a landmark class action in Berlin against X (formerly Twitter) over alleged GDPR violations, including a massive Twitter data leak. Instead of addressing the data protection and consumer rights issues, X’s official statement of defense (submitted in September 2025) tries everything to dismiss the case and deny responsibility. The company’s lawyers argue that SOMI has no legal standing, that our financing model is illegitimate, that no GDPR rules were broken (and thus no user deserves any data protection compensation), and even that German courts have no authority to hear the case. Below, we break down these key arguments from X – and show why they’re as dangerous as they are wrong, reinforcing our resolve to fight for consumer rights in the EU.

2025-12-09 10:41:24

AI-stripped, digitally abused and sexually exploited. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to gender-based violence, which affects thousands of women every day in online environments. And yet, the phenomenon remains far from being dismantled.

2025-11-25 11:36:07

This is the newsletter for November 2025 from the Foundation for Market Information Research to its relations, including the participants in its actions, its sympathizers, media professionals and app users.