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Europe must tackle the major challenges of the future together. I am working for a Europe that is more sustainable, more supportive, fairer and more responsible towards the world and its citizens. This also applies to digitisation. The agenda for most digital issues is set in Brussels and I am fighting for Europe to assert its democratic values in technological terms too.
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Europe Calling “Free opinions? – How X and TikTok influenced the German federal election”
Register here! Dear friends! Free and fair elections require not only the ballot box but also the space in which people form their voting decisions beforehand. In view of X-owner Musk’s support for the AfD and Zuckerberg and TikTok’s cosy relationship with Trump, one question is becoming increasingly important: Is the way information reaches people […]
Turkey: Elon Musk is restricting freedom of expression
Dear friends, Elon Musk is once again showing his true colours. He doesn’t care about the freedom of expression, but only about the suppression of democratic voices. In Turkey, he has blocked over 300 accounts used by the country’s democratic opposition to protest the unlawful arrest of presidential candidate İmamoğlu. Musk is working with dictator […]
Behind the deliberate infection of ChatGPT & Co. with Russian propaganda
Dear friends, This report from the disinformation experts at ‘NewsGuard’ is really something. If you have 10 minutes today, read this report here. The study examined 10 AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Copilot to see if they spread disinformation from the pro-Kremlin propaganda network ‘Pravda’. The result: depending on the chatbot, 6% to over […]
Trump/Musk: These words are now forbidden
Dear friends! Woman. Black. LGBT. Climate. Bias. Equality. These words are now forbidden for many scientists in the USA. White and Man, on the other hand, are not on the list of forbidden words that the National Science Foundation (NSF) is now scanning all funding applications and publications for. You can find the entire list […]
So much for freedom of expression: Musk’s algorithm favours far-right and pro-Putin German parties on X/Twitter
Dear friends and followers, Why am I actually being shown this? This is a question that everyone who is active on social media asks themselves. Now, a new study by researchers from Germany, Ireland and the USA, using X/Twitter as an example, shows how strongly the algorithm favours the content of some German parties ahead […]
Tariffs, Gaza, Greenland? Or how to obscure the takeover of the US government by tech billionaires.
Dear Friends, Trump, Bannon and Musk have done it: the whole world is talking about trade wars, tariffs, and today a US occupation of Gaza. In recent weeks, it has been Canada, Mexico and Greenland. Every day there are several more super stories, each one wilder than the last. The new reports come so fast […]
Three urgent measures against Musk, Zuckerberg and Trump
Dear friends! This Tuesday, the European Parliament discussed for nearly three hours the “Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms.” I was able to directly address the responsible EU Commission Vice President Virkkunen as first speaker for our Greens/EFA group. I […]
Crypto-Coin $TRUMP: A scam that makes him billions and drives the USA into the hands of Iran, Russia and Co.
Dear friends, In the face of all the havoc, this news is at risk of being largely ignored. Yet it could threaten our security like no other. What happened? Last Friday, just four days before his inauguration on Monday, Donald Trump launched a crypto coin called $TRUMP. Within a few hours, the price of this […]
Europe Calling ‘Hostile Takeover? – How tech billionaires are undermining our democracies & what the EU can do’
Register right here! Dear friends! It’s unmistakable: with Twitter, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has bought himself a megaphone and is holding it right up to the world’s ears. He is not only interfering in US politics, which he will control as a de facto member of Donald Trump’s government. In Germany, […]
Success against election manipulation by Tiktok: EU Commission launches investigation into Romanian election
Dear friends, This is a bombshell. I am still speaking in the plenary session of the European Parliament about the role of platforms such as TikTok and X in the manipulation of elections and democracy (my speech can be read below), when the EU Commission announces the opening of a formal investigation into TikTok. What […]
Don’t leave us alone! – My political trip to Washington D.C.
Dear friends! Not even two weeks after the US election, I boarded a plane to Washington D.C. to talk to civil society, activists and decision-makers in Congress and the White House. We discussed democracy and digital platforms, as well as strategies for preventing Trump from winning a second term. In this email, I will take […]
My vote for Ursula von der Leyen and against Manfred Weber’s far-right course
Dear friends, Yesterday, the European Parliament approved the new EU Commission. Rarely have I thought about a vote for so long. Also our Green/EFA group had different opinions, because there are good arguments for and against a vote for the second EU Commission of Ursula von der Leyen. I would like to explain to you […]
