CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed has launched legal action after the Trump administration targeted him over his peaceful & legal exercise of freedom of expression. "The State Department’s actions here are unjustified and blatantly unconstitutional" - CCDH: counterhate.com/blog/stateme...

The EU condemns the U.S. travel restrictions against European citizens and officials. Such measures are unacceptable between allies, partners, and friends. The EU stands firm in its defense of freedom of expression, fair digital rules, and its regulatory sovereignty.

An important point here: this is not just about EU lawmakers being banned from entering the US. As the ICC judges & Francesca Albanese have found out, being sanctioned means you can't carry out basic daily tasks like banking, because Europe's economy is America-controlled.

US issues sanctions / visa bans on several EU (former) officials. Amazing stuff, check out the language used. But by all means let us run our governments & vital services on US cloud providers! (let us NOT, to be clear). www.state.gov/releases/off...

The results are in 💪 As the year comes to an end, so does Danish EU Presidency, and the final list of results achieved in the Council during the presidency has now been completed 📋 🇪🇺 For the full list, visit 👉 tinyurl.com/y6b5dpa9

Donald Trumps tilbagevenden til magten, våbenhvile i Gaza og massive investeringer i kunstig intelligens: Her er 10 internationale begivenheder, der definerede 2025 og gav anledning til spredning af misinformation #dkpol www.tjekdet.dk/indsigt/ti-b...

@altingetdk.bsky.social's oversigt over reaktioner på Trumps Grønlands-udsending (og hans eksplicitte plan om at annektere Grønland) #dkpol #glpol www.altinget.dk/artikel/rege...

Sovereignty of Kingdom of Denmark must be preserved, EU spokesperson says reut.rs/4saLabf

Hienoa. Could be very useful when explaining the EU's digital regulation (including to US counterparts).

Noch ein Spiel, bei dem man Tipps und Tricks in Sachen Desinformation lernt: www.voteforturtle.eu

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The hypocrisy of US complaints over the EU fine for Musk's X - @richardmilne.ft.com on how the protests that come after some $50bn penalties on European financial groups in the decade from 2014 even though some of the companies had little or no activities in the US. www.ft.com/content/9444...

Let that sink in

The entire thread is worth your time:

Hardly a surprise. Any ‘agreement’ with Trump is just the start of attempts to extort more, as his various tariffs on Canada & Mexico have shown. In that respect, his approach to negotiations is similar to Putin’s. Deals are essentially worthless.

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

1/ U.S. security experts warn that foreign espionage threats are growing, but the FBI’s counterintelligence mission is being weakened. www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...

Vi får dem næppe nogensinde til hverken at forstå eller erkende det, men samtlige danske politikere og myndigheder, der fortsat bruger X, støtter galskab som dette. De bærer ved deres tilstedeværelse på platformen ved til det amerikanske forsøg på at nedbryde europæisk sammenhængskraft.

I think the EU countries should collectively call the U.S. ambassadors to explain why the United States plans to undermine the EU like a hostile power.

Europea: European

Just flagging that the European Parliament has its own font, which could potentially trigger strong feelings on team Times New Roman: Europea 😍 Europea was designed as a 'unifying element across the diverse linguistic landscape of Europe, ensuring accessibility and readability for all'.

🇪🇺🤝🇨🇦 A new step for our Digital Partnership. This week, we reinforced cooperation with Canada to boost competitiveness, innovation and economic resilience at the first Digital Partnership Council. For a digital economy that works for all ↓ Link.europa.eu/HndTw4

We have opened an investigation into potential anti-competitive conduct by Google. The investigation will assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using web publishers’ content for artificial intelligence purposes. Read more ↓ link.europa.eu/RpvRRH

Our history has taught us that there is no freedom of speech without freedom of information. And freedom of information exists where there is respect for pluralism. There will be no freedom of speech if citizens' freedom of information is sacrificed to defend some tech oligarchs.

Interesting editorial decision by @washingtonpost.com to bash the EU+relativize the 'speck in the eye' of Trump in this editorial - against the backdrop of the fresh National Security Strategy, and Musk's tantrum over the X fine. wapo.st/44RrDCw

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

"Russia has welcomed Donald Trump's new US National Security Strategy, calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Under RFK Jr., the CDC provides a megaphone to the anti-vaccine movement wapo.st/4oILc77 via @lenasun.bsky.social @davidovalle.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com

The European Commission has lost access to its control panel for buying and tracking ads on Elon Musk’s X — after fining the social media platform €120 million for violating EU transparency rules.

Europe’s far-right firebrands are rushing to hitch their fortunes to Washington’s new crusade against Brussels.

News Analysis: President Trump has long portrayed European allies as freeloaders that fail to pay enough for their own security. That contempt is now official White House policy.

No one mouthes the messages of Russian influence operations more loudly or consistently than Elon Musk. And note how he refuses to talk about his regular direct talks with Vladimir Putin, which as a top secret security holder he is obligated to report to USG, but does not—ever.

Does anyone know which language this is it translated from?

Or, rather: 'The EU has slapped a €120 million fine on Elon Musk’s X, despite mounting US pressure'

Tracking Trump’s retribution targets reut.rs/4pCQCSc

🚨🚨 Welcome news: #socialmedia giants including #Meta and #TikTok will be held liable for financial fraud for the first time under new EU rules agreed by @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu yesterday. www.politico.eu/article/soci...

This should get the job done

This is very true and it affects authors too, because you know that every sentence you write could be taken apart aggressively and in bad faith.

It’s more nuanced… insightful analysis of the Commission’s Digital Omnibus by @markscott.bsky.social in @techpolicypress.bsky.social Some @ec.europa.eu adjustments make sense. Other (much) less so. #MixedBag #omnibus techpolicy.press/what-the-eur...

A new paper shows how social media accelerates extremism by flooding users with emotionally charged, divisive content that algorithms naturally amplify, making extremist narratives far more visible, engaging, and persuasive than they would be otherwise.

Departementerne er blevet mere politiske - men embedsfolkene ved godt, hvornår de skal sige nej, if. ny bog. Hvordan er udviklingen i andre (europæiske) lande - hvem kan anbefale sammenlignende analyser? www.altinget.dk/artikel/groe...

New members of Congress understand tech in ways their predecessors often don't, and now they’re driving new bills on online safety, privacy, AI, and more. But without a centralized tech committee, needed regulations can through the cracks. bit.ly/3K76Pjr

This headline is quite painful - but perhaps telling. Survival for Ukraine is now not only on the battlefield against Russia, it's also dealing with Trump's volatility and US power politics & coercion towards partners. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.

A little retrospective can be helpful at times to work out what has been happening and what was knowable. Let's travel back in time to 2017 (~8 years ago) when I was lead author on a paper about the post-truth world. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... 1/6

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