RSF’s case came as U.K. newspaper The Guardian announced on Wednesday that it was leaving the “toxic” platform, citing Musk’s influence in the U.S. election and because of “often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism.” Spanish daily newspaper La Vanguardia also quit X, saying Thursday that X … Read more
Virkkunen on Tuesday took a quintessential Brussels approach to the issue, sticking to her script and spelling out the same, legalistic answer all evening: Any company operating in Europe must abide by its rules. She said she wanted to speed up the investigations under the DSA, but the work needed to be “evidence-based.” She stopped … Read more
Fayard announced it would take legal action on Friday, less than 24 hours before the book goes on sale. In its statement, the publisher claimed that the cover of Bardella’s book “does not contain any political statements,” and that the Mediatransports decision “constitutes a serious infringement of freedom of expression.” Publicis and French rail network … Read more
“To be clear: the regulation must be practicable,” Scholz said on Thursday. Scholz is the first head of government to call for delaying the new rules. This comes after a group of agriculture ministers, as well as center-right politicians like German MEP Peter Liese of the European People’s Party — the political family of von … Read more
Shortly afterwards, Kallas stepped in to quell the tsunami of gullibility, replying to Garton Ash, “This was somebody’s April fools joke. Not true.” Last month, Kallas jokingly denied that she ate “Russians for breakfast,” after one anonymous European Union official had attributed unbending anti-Moscow positions to her. “The fact that this April fools joke generated … Read more
The new regulation was introduced by the European Commission in 2022 in response to creeping state control over media organizations and attacks on press freedom. The new law will ban governments from going after journalists to reveal their sources by deploying spyware on their phones, though some exceptions to the ban apply. It will also … Read more
Apple has opened negotiations in recent weeks with major news and publishing organizations, seeking permission to use their material in the company’s development of generative artificial intelligence systems, the New York Times reported on Friday. The iPhone maker has floated multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to license the archives of news articles, according to … Read more
