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Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with social media, Spain PM Sánchez says (www.politico.eu)

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“The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression,” he said during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The social media that was supposed to bring unity, clarity and democracy have instead given us division, vice and a reactionary agenda.”

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[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

And yet, most EU politicians are still sound asleep while continuing to post on X as if nothing happened. And most EU newspaper's favourite sentence is still "... as <insert_name> wrote on X earlier“ and embedding the message directly from X.

These people fail to recognize the danger until someone literally holds a gun to their head.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

The eu has sent a warning to twitter, I don't know if this has been followed up or not.

A (very) large international news labour union organisation has pulled out of twitter, I think that totalled about 150 news outlets