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Europe Fined X, But It's Still Avoiding the Real Threat to Democracy

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Curated: 09/12/2025 from www.techpolicy.press/europe-fined-x-but-its-still-avoiding-the-real-threat-to-democracy/

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Alexandra Geese on the EC's "first-ever non-compliance decision under the Digital Services Act against X ... a necessary first step in enforcing European digital regulation... [but] not sufficient to address the systemic risks posed by X... systematic amplification of certain political content and the systematic suppression of others" as part of "a United States foreign policy bent on pushing Europe to the right", confirmed at roughly the same time by the US's November 2025 National Security Strategy (pdf).

This strategy is "openly confrontational" with Europe, "portrayed as a continent on the brink of “civilizational erasure”... [so they'll] actively support so-called “patriotic” parties across Europe... direct backing for far-right nationalist parties such as the AfD in Germany or Reform UK in Britain... exporting political destabilization abroad. Social media platforms are central to this strategy... algorithmic power as a geopolitical instrument for targeted election interference and systematic political manipulation in Europe".

Minutes before Geese's article was published, "Elon Musk advocated that the European Union "should be abolished" in a post on X".

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Europe Fined X, But It's Still Avoiding the Real Threat to Democracy

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