{"id":477657,"date":"2026-06-01T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477657\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:38:08","slug":"leak-eu-to-use-state-run-social-media-to-combat-us-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477657\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAK: EU to Use State-Run Social Media to Combat US Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels is planning to use state-run social media to combat privately-owned services operated by US tech companies, a leaked document has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission memo \u2014 which was marked \u201csensitive\u201d and \u201cneed to know\u201d \u2014 bemoans the growing power of American and Chinese companies across the digital space, arguing that the EU must act to assert its \u201ctech sovereignty\u201d both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brussels is planning to use state-run social media to combat privately-owned services operated by US tech companies, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,114,5148,1712,61,60,58,80,115],"class_list":["post-477657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-china","tag-european-union","tag-european-commission","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-social-media","tag-technology","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}