“YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes.” theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

We have found unreasonable that @ec.europa.eu applied a general presumption of non-disclosure to a risk assessment report drawn up by the social media platform X under the Digital Services Act #DSA. 🧵 1/3

#irelandisfull of incompetence, but let’s just blame someone else

“The Telegraph first reported that the man was an asylum seeker, and James Cartlidge repeated this in the Commons after PMQs. No 10 did not correct this at the post-PMQs lobby briefing.” @BBCNews also referred to “foreigner prisoners” being wrongly released. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Bart the waverer

Are we still pretending this is real?

Interesting

Yup, better not focus on the ordinary people celebrating, that might resonate too much with voters who need to be kept demotivated.

If only the European Commission cared as much about infrastructure and the tech stack that runs on it as it does about the far less economically-relevant AI hype

Man uncomfortable about racism in party that exists to scapegoat immigrants leaves to join another party that scapegoats immigrants www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Me every time I finish a PlayStation game

Excited to have used the brand new Digital Services Act 40.4 Data Access Portal to request data on Google AI Overviews. Thanks to support from @spielkamp.bsky.social @lejlamarcius.bsky.social & Michele Loi, plus great prep resources from @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social, @bnetza.bsky.social & others

“The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative [..] Open Desk is developed by the German Centre for Digital Sovereignty of the Public Administration (Zendis), a publicly owned company.”

His name is not Tommy Robinson. That is just the name he identifies as #woke

"There are now more full-time lobbyists influencing the EU’s digital policies, than there are MEPs in the European Parliament"

And what is Liones Messi’s opinion? Or John Malkovich’s It is a game of what random rich dudes think about climate change, right? www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

It makes complete sense for the techbros to give #Trump millions for a building to hold #balls in. Where else would he keep them?

But why would Farage support an overprivileged, white man? It is so inconsistent…oh wait, never mind

We filled a complaint against Ireland to the European Commission today. Ireland has appointed an ex-Meta lobbyist as its new Data Protection Commissioner. This will be interpreted by the tech industry as a signal of impunity. The European Commission must intervene. www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

“Gotta-blame-someone-else-ers” gotta blame someone else.

Superstar

Meta is appealing to delay application of the order to stop its egregious non-respect of its obligations under the EU Digital Services Act. Why? Presumably to maximise costs of justice for the plaintif and courts. #meta #justicedelayed

The party that launched a war in coalition with GW Bush isn’t the most obvious candidate to do what now The party of the island of strangers?

A third of the article given over to one sixteenth of the electorate. Why? Guess! #aras25 www.politico.eu/article/irel...

Bart the Waverer

The instinct of the far right to blame others for everything is a wonder to behold www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

To be fair, how could Meta guess that an account called RTE News AI was an account using AI to mimic RTE News? www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

There’s nothing like integrity-driven leadership. And this is nothing like…

Just beautiful.

An extreme right ***anti-EU*** Member of the European Parliament calling on the ***European Commission*** to overturn the decisions of the ***French*** courts, thereby removing rights from ***French***voters www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

Meta, without cracking up at the gag, complained that having to obey the law in some countries, but not yet in others, undermina the borderless EU single market.

“…sparked fresh criticism of Fox’s credibility…”

The UK Conservative Party has a cunning plan to win back voters- - by threatening to remove their human rights safeguards - by threatening to removed their social security safety net - by threatening to destroy their environment by overturning their own environmental policies. 🤦‍♀️

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings. To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...

Do you (have to) use LinkedIn? Want out of their AI model-training bollocksology? Opt out here, h/t to @lizcarolan.com: www.linkedin.com/mypreference... #spéirghorm #ireland #linkedin #notoai

“Yesterday, a Dutch appeals court threw out Elon Musk’s X request for a gag order against local tech expert and legal scholar Danny Mekić. Mekić sued X in 2023 after the platform briefly made his account invisible, a so-called shadow ban“ euobserver.com/digital/ar90...

Dear journalists, Please provide some context when reporting on politicians threatening to leave the ECHR - instead of “Badenoch threatened to leave the ECHR“ say “Badenoch threatened to join Russia and Belarus in leaving the ECHR“

Trump wants lies and hate to be protected? I’m shocked. Shocked! Unlike the US, where free speech is only a constitutional right, freedom of expression is already protected as a *fundamental* right in the EU and, separately, the CoE region.

FWIW I've written to the Irish Minister for Justice - an enthusiastic supporter of Europe's hideous "chat control" phone-scanning proposal - asking him to imagine when that technology is used against him. If you're German, please, PLEASE write to your justice/interior minister today.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

This is an ostensibly left wing government in 2025

He doesn’t appear to know, or to want to know, that all hell broke loose long ago www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Reading the press coverage today, it is difficult to tell if there are other candidates www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Wow. This guy looks really like a semi deflated Mark Rutte balloon

<Keir Starmer Voice> "We risk becoming... an island of morons."

Does the woman who does cycling commentary on Eurosport have a fan page or group ? She’s hilarious!

It is bizarre that the far right do everything to cause chaos, in order to then present themselves as the solution to chaos- and get away with it!

Enforcing digital platform regulation, one private enforcement action at a time...

Conservative politician pre announces plan to strip rights from voters and expecta voters to thank her for this