Digital

Digital technologies enable us to communicate, travel, work, learn, study and socialize better – across national borders. According to the principles of the Internet, digital networking ensures more participation, more involvement, more knowledge for all and thus puts our democracy on a broader basis.

But in recent years, digital technologies have been used to concentrate power and wealth in a few hands. Google, Facebook and Co. control ever larger parts of the economy and the shaping of political opinions in Western countries. In China, digitization is being used to totally control society, so that any dissent can be nipped in the bud.

More than ever, we need freedom and justice. I am fighting for a solidary, green and feminist digitalization – for everyone.

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5.February 2025

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 […]

23.January 2025

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 […]

20.January 2025

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 […]

9.January 2025

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, […]

17.December 2024

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 […]

13.December 2024

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 […]

5.December 2024

TikTok interferes with Romanian election to push extreme-right, pro-Putin candidate

Dear friends! The reports from Romania are extremely worrying. According to the latest press reports, declassified documents by Romania’s National Security Council show that videos supporting extreme-right, pro-Putin presidential candidate Călin Georgescu were pushed out in “swarms” on TikTok. The documents revealed that Georgescu’s campaign gained from a large-scale, coordinated social media effort, which seemed […]

6.November 2024

US election: My appeal for European courage to do things differently

Dear friends, I want to be completely honest with you: writing this email to you is difficult. Continuing on with the next EU Commission hearings this morning is difficult. Reading the worried messages from my friends in the US is extremely difficult. The election of Donald Trump has left us all waking up to a […]

10.November 2023

Political advertising in the EU: fit for the digital age

The EU has agreed on new rules for political advertising to better protect elections across Europe. They include clear transparency obligations and restrictions to so-called “targeting” techniques. In the night of 7 November 2023, the EU co-legislators reached a provisional agreement.  The Regulation was needed to ensure that advertising technologies cannot be used to spread disinformation […]

16.October 2023

My Parliamentary Questions to the EU Commission on lobbying and microtargeting practices around the Regulation to combat child abuse material

On 11 May 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal for rules to prevent and combat child abuse. The vote in the lead Committee of the EU Parliament (LIBE) on the compromises is scheduled to take place on 26 October, the vote in Council has been postponed following a blocking minority in September. Following recent […]

24.April 2022

The DSA deal: A gamechanger for our lives, society and the internet

The Digital Services Act will become the new digital constitution for Europe.

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