Many European countries have electoral laws, limiting spending. If they care about enforcing those laws, they might have to suspend social media that won't respect those laws during campaigns.
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Anne Applebaum
Europeans should treat Musk like a rogue state. From @theguardian.com
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We are not there yet, but actually accelerating to it.
Kind of looks prescient now.
According to electoral law, the term ‘electoral fraud’ covers all measures taken to change the result of an election in favour of or against a party or candidate, contrary to democratic principles.
In Germany, vote rigging is a criminal offence that can result in a fine or a prison sentence of up to five years.
Of course not. But it means that the German Gov has the means to shut him down a lot easier than the American Gov can.
And they do not have the 1st Amendment! They have very powerful hate-speech laws that Musk breaks 10 times a day in his xtweets
This is not a theoretical problem.
What about Canada?
2 major elections pending.
rogue state is right.
It is the only way forward.
While we still have institutions that work, there is an urgency about this
with meta and twitter sidelining so openly to trump they become even more hostile to foreign nations.
this need to be addressed