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The [European Commission] can request messages that are publicly posted on Slack,
Vermeulen said
That already places significant obstacles to transparency, and if there’s not enough transparency, there cannot be enough accountability,
Pírková saidThere will be a number of expert organizations who have the capacity regarding data scraping and data analysis [that] will be probably following [the event],
said Eliška Pírková, senior policy analyst at digital rights group Access NowThe Commission could look at whether Alice Weidel, or any other user for that matter, received a so-called power user multiplier score in its recommendation algorithms,
Vermeulen explainedIn the first survey we conducted this year, we found that this has not yet benefited the AfD,
Manfred Güllner, the head of the Forsa Institute, said
Yes! You are perfectly right!”
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Why is there such a negative reaction from some about AfD?”
Musk wrote on his X platform in JuneThere is a spread of disinformation and so much illegal content and these platforms are not respecting the DSA and our rules. So I think the Commission could do more in the framework that we have given them as legislators.”
Referring to X and other social media companies, she said
I don’t understand why people believe that free speech is not affected by the concentration of opinion-making power in the hands of the few. For me, that has rather illiberal, autocratic tendencies, rather than liberal tendencies, when one voice is so much more powerful than all the others.”
The MEP saidWe are talking about a private business and we need to make sure our position is well founded,
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We will not allow anyone to use the name of Catalonia to spread hate speech.”
Salvador Illa, the regional president of Catalonia and ally of the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, saidIs it fair that one person can adjust his algorithms in a way that makes him and his politics and opinions more prevalent than others? Is it OK? Is it risky? Is it in line with the DSA?”
Referring to Musk, she askedEither the European Commission applies with the greatest firmness the laws that exist to protect our unique space or it does not and in that case it should think about giving the capacity to do so back to the member states of the European Union, to France,
he saidGermany must not tolerate Musk’s transgressions,
declared the publisher of the liberal newspaper TagesspiegelHow did Elon Musk’s election propaganda for the AfD make it into Welt?”
asked another commentator, accusing Welt’s publisher, Axel Springer, of betraying its own principlesWe are experiencing a new dimension of hatred in our country – against our values, democracy and Germany.”
In 2023, it published a 50-point manifesto demanding that immigrants respect “German values”, claimingI find it worrying that a man with enormous access to social media and large financial resources is so directly involved in the internal affairs of other countries."
Store told Norwegian national public broadcaster NRK
I don’t know the people you’re talking about. I know he said some negative things about a couple of people that are running for office, but it’s not so unusual.”
The president-elect addedYou mean where he likes people that … tended to be conservative? I don’t know the people. I can say Elon’s doing a good job. Very smart guy.”
Pressed Tuesday on whether Musk’s interventions were appropriate, Trump repliedWhat I’m trying to find out is if Musk is using a large information platform that he owns in ways which could diminish the freedom of speech of others, by hard-coding a multiplier into his own reach,
he clarified in remarks shared with POLITICO