EU Officials Pressure Meta and X to Enforce Censorship: Threats Linked to “Fact-Checkers” and Disinformation Investigations

This week's statement by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and the realization that Meta's policy shift regarding free speech on the giant's social platforms doesn't necessarily end with the US - is clearly sending shivers down the spine of a particular political class in Europe.

The one that, at least currently, gets to do all the talking - and gets that talking reported as gospel by legacy media.

And so, officials in a number of EU countries as well as some members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are scrambling to respond to Meta's announcement - in a way, it seems, simply as an emergency measure to protect their narrow political, rather than what may be their nations' long term, greater interest.

The people's interest, meanwhile, is always the same: being able to speak freely as the very first point of assurance, that we do indeed, live in a democratic way.

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