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I find it worrying that a man with enormous access to social media and huge economic resources involves himself so directly in the internal affairs of other countries, ... This is not the way things should be between democracies and allies."
Støre told public broadcaster NRK, We act as if Mr Musk’s Twitter statements could influence a country of 84 million people with untruths or half-truths or expressions of opinion,
I don’t believe in courting Mr Musk’s favour. I’m happy to leave that to others,
Whether the EU Commission chooses to act will depend on a combination of technical evidence and political will,
said Felix Kartte, a senior fellow at Germany’s Mercator Foundation Elon Musk chatting with AfD leader Alice Weidel on X is covered by freedom of expression. His algorithmic manipulation, [which] is intentionally flooding German X timelines with far-right propaganda and drowning out progressive content, is not.”
German Greens lawmaker Alexandra Geese defined the problem as follows Musk must be seen as representing the U.S. president when he bets against the leadership of key European nations, allies until now,
former member of the European Parliament and Stanford University fellow Marietje Schaake wrote in an email What 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 ’How much is [it] or will it be boosted?’ This is what the Commission will be looking at,
If Musk’s engineered prominence generates public risks, such as amplifying illegal hate speech or undermining media pluralism, regulators could argue that X is failing its risk mitigation obligations under the DSA,
If we were to see this in Norway, I hope and assume that the entire Norwegian political spectrum would warn against it and distance itself from such actions,
The normal people, the sensible people, the decent people are far in the majority in this country,
a government spokesman said, ... according to the national broadcaster Deutsche Welle Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible are not interested in victims. They’re interested in themselves,
he said, ... according to Sky News This is not the way things should be between democracies and allies,
The Alternative for Germany is the last spark of hope for this country."
Musk wrote in his translated opinion piece for Welt am Sonntag The combination of enormous wealth, control over information and networks, the use of artificial intelligence and the willingness to ignore rules is a frontal attack on our democracy,
said Habeck, who is also the Green Party's candidate for chancellor Ten years ago, who could have imagined it if we had been told that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new international reactionary movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany,
Macron told ambassadors at an annual foreign policy speech today Hands off our democracy, Mr Musk!
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz also called Musk's remarks 'intrusive and pretentious', while vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck warned him We are at the very beginning. If we are invited to these talks, the outcome of those talks is open,
OVP heavyweight Wilfried Haslauer, the governor of Salzburg state who stood next to Stocker at his first statement to the media as designated party leader, told broadcaster ORF Voices within the People's Party that rule out cooperation with an FPO under Herbert Kickl have become much quieter. This in turn means that a new path may be opening up that did not exist before,
Van der Bellen said in an address on Sunday First the people and then the chancellor,
FPO leader Herbert Kickl said in a brief Facebook posting on Sunday evening, repeating a populist slogan from his campaign, adding
