MAGA US - in bed with big tech - is exporting domestic divisions to the world, instead of promoting democracy. Democratic actors in and beyond Europe need to mobilise against disinformation from US sources, in addition to strategically boosting information integrity at home and abroad. Now.

Ivo Daalder: NATO is a strategic bargain that ensures the US remains the world’s most powerful and economically secure nation at a fraction of the cost of going it alone—statement by US Ambassadors and Supreme Allied Commanders who served at NATO this century.

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...

Put down your phone - if you still can - and read @corporateeurope.org's report on how US corporate and executive 'diplomacy'/brinkmanship works to undermine the EU's digital legislation, using an army of lobbyists and a toolbox full of dirty tricks.

Why We've Just Sued the Government Statement by NewsGuard Co-CEOs Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz February 6, 2026 Read our full statement here: www.newsguardtech.com/press/why-we...

Brussels effect vs billionaire’s effect.

2/12 There is a reason why Putin, Musk, Trump, Vance, Thiel, and Xi all spend fortunes to attack Brussels. They do not hate the EU because it fails. They hate it because of its potential. Our unity is their nightmare

Denmark shares the second place 🏆

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

France’s escalating investigation into Elon Musk’s X has become a fresh flashpoint in the transatlantic fight over platform governance, writes Mark Scott, highlighting how US claims of censorship collide with Europe’s push to hold powerful platforms accountable. buff.ly/UJptso0

Only 17 percent of Danes see the United States as an ally. That is the result of a new opinion poll conducted by Danmarks Radio. Sixty percent of Danes now view the United States as an adversary, while one in five Danes simply no longer knows what to think of the U.S. www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Sobering assessments from the just released NATO Stratcom brief on information risks. stratcomcoe.org/pdfjs/?file=...

European Media Freedom Act: Commission publishes new guidelines to protect professional journalism on VLOPs

This year, 25 media outlets in Ukraine will receive financing from IMS, @danishmfa.bsky.social and @sidasweden.bsky.social. The initiative aims to ensure access to news, reinforce local journalism and develop factchecking skills among audiences. Read more: www.mediasupport.org/news/ims-int...

Commission preliminarily finds TikTok's addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act | Shaping Europe’s digital future digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

Possible responses: 🧶ban knitting as an act of domestic terrorism 🇳🇴invade Norway

#Bitcoin explained in two posts: #$BTC

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Declining trust in the US is dimming the aura of American brands

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe, sparking concern that they aim to undermine government/EU policies, including digital regulation

So where is the censorship if not in the DSA? It's in the USA. The Trump administration has censored free speech in 236 actions as of today trumpcensorship.com/ Who would have thought. 9/9

There have been increasingly shrill accusations against the EU over its digital legislation, based on accusations of "censorship" by defenders of "free speech" -- including, so it appears, the right to peddle an AI app that seemingly produces child sexual abuse material (CSAM). 1/9

As news of investigations into X break and a certain tech mogul has temper tantrums, remember that Musk lashing out at global internet regulators is nothing new. open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

Two fundamental reasons why people tend to fall for disinformation: 1) Anxiety about the unknown or uncontrollable 2) Self-identity youtu.be/uzHgtTN7JSo?...

Using tech to manufacture BS anti-vax claims

Revealed: How Big Tech is lobbying on forthcoming EU Digital Fairness Act

And France, do Elon... France’s🇫🇷 Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response..👇

Or: 'How the House Judiciary GOP Disread Europe's €120 million X Decision'. Deliberate misreading=disreading

Godt initiativ 👏

🤯 We have officially entered the era of Synthetic Reality. 🤖 My latest paper, "The Generative AI Paradox," reveals how GenAI is no longer just making "fake content"—it’s manufacturing entire contexts of belief. Read the full paper on arXiv: lnkd.in/gu9XftrG

Men are too emotional to be president.

Go 🇬🇱🇩🇰❤️

When a French government account publicly sparred with the White House over Greenland on X, it wasn’t a mistake. It was part of a deliberate new strategy to fight online disinformation from Russia, China and, increasingly, MAGA-aligned voices in the U.S.

En ny aftale lægger op til langt mindre besparelser på den amerikanske udviklingsbistand, end Trump-regeringen havde lagt op til. Men det ændrer ikke ved, at den amerikanske bistand er fundamentalt ændret. #dkaid globalnyt.dk/konturerne-a...

How to build European independence in defence? A topic which I’ve been talking about recently. I’ve put my personal understanding into this broader text & hope it’ll be helpful in further discussions on this most important strategic issue for Europe. andriuskubilius.lt/en/on-europe...

💬 Exchange of views w/ @ec.europa.eu and @eui-media-freedom.bsky.social on media concentration as a threat to democratic resilience 📺🗞️🛡️ 🎥 Live link.europa.eu/Kg4hc9 📄 Agenda link.europa.eu/j7fB6V 2/2

US embassy removes flags with names of fallen Danish soldiers

Danish Veterans are organising a silent manifestation march in Copenhagen on 31 January. To protest US disrespect towards Denmark's NATO role, the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark and the Greenlandic people's right to self determination. #NoWords danmarksveteraner.dk/news/no-word...

We are pleased to announce that a keynote speaker for the April Cambridge Disinformation Summit is 2001 Nobel Economist, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz. Professor Stiglitz will discuss systemic economic risks from disinformation and from platforms that amplify or monetize disinformation.

And let's also boycott Palantir while we're at it

Some TikTok users are accusing the app of censorship after they attempted and failed to upload videos about ICE. TikTok says the ongoing glitches are related to a power outage. https://cnn.it/3NEo5xW

Seven of the 10 best-performing economies in 2025 were EU countries — so Europe should stop talking itself down, acc. to International Monetary Fund director Kristalina Georgieva www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Please. This is absurd. Europe can certainly deter Russia and defend itself if its focused and determined. Perpetuating a sense of European helplessness may help Rutte bureaucratically but its 1. wrong 2. prevents action. 3. willfully blind: the US ain't coming to defend Europe.

@euobserver please clarify: 'bad will remains' - from the side of MEPs? Really?

Tan-Trump alert: European leaders: wind energy is key to European energy independence (+ helps lower greenhouse gas emissions). Trump/Putin try hard to convince us otherwise; with Trump even trying to halt Danish off shore projects in California and Rhode Island. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

@europeanjournalists.org wishes to express its full support for our colleagues in Greenland. Your work is crucial to maintaining a free and independent media landscape and to countering rising disinformation. We recognise the particular challenges you are facing at this time. We stand with you…

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

Some official U.S.-government social-media accounts have become a reliable stream of xenophobic messaging that aims to redefine what it means to be American, @alibreland.bsky.social reports:

Utmärkt av @oajonsson.bsky.social . NB8+Polen länderna har en gemensam hotbild: 🇷🇺. Inget hindrar länderna att samarbeta inom NATO så länge det går &/eller med andra stater som 🇩🇪, 🇬🇧, 🇫🇷, men Oscar gör helt rätt i att lyfta de politiska riskerna i dessa länder. www.sverigesradio.se/play/artikel...

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files