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BREAKING: TikTok's addictive design breaches EU law.
(Features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, highly personalised recommender system.)
The EU is finally drawing a line: TikTok has to turn off their addictive tricks.
We should be in control of our own time & attention, not Big Tech, be it 🇨🇳🇺🇸🇪🇺
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_312
Kudos to MEPs @kimvsparrentak and @alexandrageese for their fight.
BREAKING: TikTok's addictive design breaches EU law.
(Features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, highly personalised recommender system.)
The EU is finally drawing a line: TikTok has to turn off their addictive tricks.
We should be in control of our own time & attention, not Big Tech, be it 🇨🇳🇺🇸🇪🇺
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_312
Kudos to MEPs @kimvsparrentak and @alexandrageese for their fight.
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Kicking off the EU Tech Stars Summit!
"Technology has become a weapon in the hands of autocrats.
Fortunately, we have our own alternatives in Europe."*
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
#FoShure😎
* https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/event/eu-tech-stars-summit
Kicking off the EU Tech Stars Summit!
"Technology has become a weapon in the hands of autocrats.
Fortunately, we have our own alternatives in Europe."*
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
#FoShure😎
* https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/event/eu-tech-stars-summit
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BREAKING: Europol & Paris cybercrime unit raid Musk X office in France.
"Investigations range from sexually explicit deepfakes, aiding the distribution of child sexual abuse material to the dissemination of Holocaust-denial content."
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
https://www.politico.eu/article/police-raid-elon-musk-x-office-france
BREAKING: Europol & Paris cybercrime unit raid Musk X office in France.
"Investigations range from sexually explicit deepfakes, aiding the distribution of child sexual abuse material to the dissemination of Holocaust-denial content."
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
https://www.politico.eu/article/police-raid-elon-musk-x-office-france
'Digital autonomy must be the starting point for the government.
We opt for European digital infrastructure.
Digital procurement & tendering are being standardised & centralised, driven by security-by-design, zero trust, sovereignty, open source & chain security.'
Netherlands' govt coalition accord, continued:
"Freedom and democracy cannot be taken for granted.
That is why we are not only protecting our democracy against external threats, but also making it more resilient and vibrant."
BREAKING: Netherlands to ban 'addictive, polarising & anti-democratic algorithms'
Govt wants 'enforceable EU minimum age of 15 for social media with privacy-friendly age verification as long as social media are not sufficiently secure.'
https://www.kabinetsformatie2025.nl/documenten/2026/01/30/aan-de-slag---coalitieakkoord-2026-2030
'Digital autonomy must be the starting point for the government.
We opt for European digital infrastructure.
Digital procurement & tendering are being standardised & centralised, driven by security-by-design, zero trust, sovereignty, open source & chain security.'
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BREAKING: EU Commission launches investigation into:
* Grok spreading illegal content in the EU (including fake sexual images and child abuse material)
* X's recommender systems as systemic risks
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_203
BREAKING: EU Commission launches investigation into:
* Grok spreading illegal content in the EU (including fake sexual images and child abuse material)
* X's recommender systems as systemic risks
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_203
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“Clean energy is Europe’s only route to security and prosperity.”
Let’s add tech sovereignty 💪
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
https://www.politico.eu/article/clean-energy-europe-security-prosperity-ed-miliband-dan-jorgensen/
“Clean energy is Europe’s only route to security and prosperity.”
Let’s add tech sovereignty 💪
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
https://www.politico.eu/article/clean-energy-europe-security-prosperity-ed-miliband-dan-jorgensen/
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Don’t waste a good crisis: the EU must prepare strategic autonomy.
“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-america-allies-eu-diplomats-greenland/
