{"id":335070,"date":"2025-12-07T13:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335070\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:07:07","slug":"keep-hitting-us-big-tech-with-fines-europes-greens-tell-von-der-leyen-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335070\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep hitting US Big Tech with fines, Europe\u2019s Greens tell von der Leyen \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission needs to \u201cmake clear that we should be proud of our policies &#8230; we are the only ones fighting American Big Tech,&#8221; he said, adding that tech companies are &#8220;killing freedom of speech in Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Greens have in the past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greens-efa.eu\/en\/article\/press\/x-meta-greens-efa-warn-of-trumps-tech-friends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">denounced<\/a> Meta and X over their content moderation policies, arguing these platforms amplify \u201cdisinformation\u201d and \u201cextremism\u201d and interfere in European electoral processes.<\/p>\n<p>Meta and X did not reply to a request for comment by the time of publication. Meta has \u201cintroduced changes to our content reporting options, appeals process and data access tools since the DSA came into force and are confident that these solutions match what is required under the law in the EU,\u201d a Meta spokesperson said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-accuses-meta-tiktok-of-breaching-digital-rules\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at the end<\/a> of October.<\/p>\n<p>Tech mogul Musk said his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/elon-musk-threatens-response-against-individuals-who-imposed-e120m-x-penalty\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">response to the penalty<\/a> would target the EU officials who imposed it. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the fine is \u201can attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments,\u201d and accused the move of \u201ccensorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not good when our former allies in Washington are now working hand in glove with Big Tech,&#8221; blasted European Green Party chair Ciar\u00e1n Cuffe at the opening of the congress in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>Eickhout, whose party GreenLeft-Labor alliance is in negotiations to enter government in the Netherlands, said \u201cwe should pick on this battle and stand strong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commission needs to \u201cmake clear that we should be proud of our policies &#8230; we are the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,169264,7250,223,169265,7255,169269,72853,2788,169266,7259,169267,169268,35194,169270,10495,169271,53429,11,25707,68161,643,10815,7380,3,10497,7270,14809,108,70727,19564,21,19,22,20,5102,25,24],"class_list":["post-335070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-bas-eickhout","tag-big-tech","tag-books","tag-ciaran-cuffe","tag-companies","tag-competition-and-consumer-bill","tag-content-moderation","tag-data","tag-data-protection-and-digital-information-bill","tag-digital","tag-digital-industry-and-skills","tag-digital-markets","tag-digital-markets-act","tag-digital-politics","tag-digital-services-act","tag-digital-tech-regulation","tag-disinformation","tag-elon-musk","tag-extremism","tag-macron","tag-marco-rubio","tag-media","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-platforms","tag-security","tag-services","tag-social-media","tag-transatlantic-relations","tag-transparency","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}