Martin Haase and Kai Biermann founded the blog neusprech.org (Neusprech is German for newspeak). Together they investigate how politicians use words to conceal their true intentions. They record what all these seemingly natural linguistic framings or creations actually mean.
Martin Haase was a guest author for the BigBrotherAwards in 2015.
In a compelling, entertaining and accessible format, we present these negative awards to companies, organisations, and politicians. The BigBrotherAwards highlight privacy and data protection offenders in business and politics, or as the French paper Le Monde once put it, they are the “Oscars for data leeches”.
Organised by (among others):
The BigBrotherAwards are an international project: Questionable practices have been decorated with these awards in 19 countries so far.
