After Musk, EU gives Zuckerberg deadline to address Hamas content
European Commissioner Thierry Breton has written to Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook’s parent company Meta, asking him to respond within 24 hours to explain his plan to limit falsehoods and illegal...
View ArticleAfter X and Meta, TikTok now pressed by EU to tackle Hamas content
TikTok’s Chief Executive Officer Shou Zi Chew was asked on Thursday to tell the European Commission within 24 hours how it is protecting children and teenagers from violent content and misinformation...
View ArticleYouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content
Google’s Sundar Pichai is the latest tech chief to receive a letter from Brussels urging him to be “very vigilant” to ensure Hamas-connected disinformation and illegal content doesn’t spread on...
View ArticleMoscow adds Meta spokesperson to criminal wanted list, TASS reports
Russia’s interior ministry has added the spokesperson of U.S. tech giant Meta Andy Stone to its wanted list, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported. Stone “is wanted under an article of the...
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OK boomers: A politics guide to Gen Z’s internet slang
“Vladimir Putin has lowkey been taking Ls, with a mid performance that shows a mad lack of rizz. But he’s been a pick me boy ever since the sus handshake: Viktor Orbán. It’s giving villains, no cap.”...
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How tech-savvy civilians became the new masters of war
MUNICH — It’s the techno-military industrial complex. Ukrainian troops are dealing with artillery shell shortages by arming themselves with off-the-shelf drones. Kyiv’s defense relies on access to...
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Inside the shadowy global battle to tame the world’s most dangerous technology
Inside the shadowy global battle to tame the world’s most dangerous technology Can anyone control AI? By Mark Scott, Gian Volpicelli, Mohar Chatterjee, Vincent Manancourt, Clothilde Goujard and...
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As the media’s resources dwindle, it’ll only get harder to tell fact from fake
Tom Harper is a former Sunday Times journalist and is now head of media relations, Europe at APCO, a global advisory and advocacy firm. When Buckingham Palace released an intimate Mother’s Day...
View ArticleZuckerberg says he regrets caving to White House pressure on content
Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets that Meta bowed to Biden administration pressure to censor content, saying in a letter that the interference was “wrong” and he plans to push back if it happens again....
View ArticleZuckerberg’s new Washington game
On the surface, the apologetic letter Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent to congressional Republicans on Monday looks like a capitulation in the long-simmering political wars over social media. But tech...
View ArticleTrump claims Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election in...
Former President Donald Trump writes in a new book set to be published next week that Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and said the Meta chief executive would “spend the...
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Europe’s privacy patrol is spoiling Big Tech’s AI party
More than six years after it took effect, Europe’s mighty data-protection rulebook is getting its second wind — by stymieing the artificial intelligence plans of Big Tech giants. In just a few months,...
View ArticleZuckerberg: It’s ‘sad’ that EU is left behind on AI
Mark Zuckerberg tells Meta staff not to push out new artificial intelligence services in the European Union – and he thinks that’s sad. Meta’s chief executive commented late Wednesday on Threads –...
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‘Nobody was tricked into voting for Trump’: Why the disinformation panic is over
LONDON — When Donald Trump won in 2016, social media got the blame. Not this time. Trump’s first victory in the U.S. presidential election that year — plus the shock vote in the U.K. to leave the...
View ArticleZuck goes full Musk, dumps Facebook fact-checking program
Facebook’s parent company Meta will end its third-party fact-checking program and move to a so-called community notes model, company chief Mark Zuckerberg announced today. “We’re going to get back to...
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Musk, Meta fuel far-right attack against EU tech ‘censorship’
BRUSSELS—For the European far right, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s crusade against perceived European Union “censorship” is a welcome gift. European far-right lawmakers have long opposed the EU’s...
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Zuckerberg’s censorship claims were ‘misleading’ — EU tech chief
BRUSSELS — Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg was not telling the truth when he said the European Union was institutionalizing censorship, the bloc’s top tech official said. “We know that it’s not true,”...
View ArticleZuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies
The U.S. government under incoming President Donald Trump should intervene to stop the EU from fining American tech companies for breaching antitrust rules and committing other violations, Meta chief...
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Who’s been invited? World’s far-right populists pack guest list for Trump’s...
Donald Trump’s guest list for his Jan. 20 inauguration as U.S. president is shaping up to be a global Who’s Who of right-wing populists. Inaugurations tend to be traditional, flag-waving affairs, an...
View ArticleBiden warns of rising democracy-threatening ‘oligarchy’ in grim farewell speech
President Joe Biden warned of a rising ultrawealthy “oligarchy” in America that poses a threat to the nation’s democracy, in a grave farewell address delivered Wednesday as he prepares to cede the...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published on CagleCartoons.com, Austria, Jan. 16, 2025 | By Marian Kamensky First published on PoliticalCartoons.com, Canada, Jan. 10, 2025 | By Dale Cummings First published on...
View ArticleDon’t go soft on US Big Tech, European Parliament urges
BRUSSELS — European Union lawmakers are pushing enforcers to resist any pressure from the United States over laws that curb Big Tech. Influential members of the European Parliament are worried that...
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Trump’s war on tech taxes is a big problem for Britain
LONDON — Keir Starmer hopes a tight, tech-focused trade deal with Donald Trump could give the British government a much-needed win. But to land it, the British prime minister will have to confront a...
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Fact-checkers under fire as Big Tech pulls back
Civil society groups fighting falsehoods online have faced a barrage of political attacks ever since social media giant Meta announced it was moving away from fact-checking. The community of...
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Meta chief lobbyist slams EU tech laws and fines
BRUSSELS — The EU’s tech fines are a “tariff” on U.S. companies and the bloc is going in the “wrong direction” with its tech regulation, Meta’s top lobbyist Joel Kaplan said Tuesday. Kaplan slammed...
View ArticleHow political is your pizza? The Mediterranean Diet and Europe’s food battles
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Pasta, pizza, and Parmigiano — delicious? Absolutely. But in 2025, they’re also deeply political. This week on EU Confidential, host Sarah Wheaton digs into...
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The EU’s strategy to counter Trump’s tariffs: An iron fist in a velvet glove
BRUSSELS — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the European Union would be ready to retaliate if Donald Trump imposes tariffs “within an hour.” Not so fast. The U.S. president this week reinstated...
View ArticleVance’s week of waging war on EU tech law
Live coverage from Munich: POLITICO is on the ground at the Munich Security Conference, where we’re having conversations with top officials, lawmakers and experts at our POLITICO Pub. Follow our...
View ArticleEU lawmakers try to counter tech bros’ Washington lobbying
European Union politicians who helped shape the bloc’s crackdown on Big Tech are trying to sway United States policymakers who’ve been listening to tech bros like X’s Elon Musk and Meta’s Mark...
View ArticleEU social media law isn’t censorship, tech chief tells US critic
The European Union’s social media law “does not regulate speech,” EU tech boss Henna Virkkunen told a key U.S. lawmaker who had criticized the bloc’s tech rules as censorship. A regulation that...
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Meta faces ‘substantial’ fine for not complying with Turkey’s gag orders
Facebook parent company Meta has been fined a “substantial” amount for not complying with orders from Turkish authorities to limit content, a spokesperson told POLITICO. The Turkish government has...
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