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It’s Time for the EU to Build Its Own Tech – and Regulate Big Tech’s Algorithms

brusselsmorning.com It's Time for the EU to Build Its Own Tech - and Regulate Big Tech's Algorithms

Social media platforms, mostly U.S.-based, drive global politics under a free speech model the EU and others neither share nor benefit from.

It's Time for the EU to Build Its Own Tech - and Regulate Big Tech's Algorithms

Much of the social media infrastructure that shapes political discourse today is privately controlled, American-based, and built on an absolutist interpretation of free speech that the rest of the world – including the European Union – neither shares nor benefits from.

As revealed in reports like Semafor’s coverage of group chats that changed American politics, the consolidation of power in opaque, privately owned digital spaces has profound consequences not only within the U.S., but globally....

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