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European politicians and leaders must act NOW to protect democracy.

Contact the MEPs to leave X: https://leavex.eu/politicians

#LeaveX #ByeByeElon #HelloQuitX #QuitX #eXit #juntas #DetoX #EscapeX

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The Big Tech Lobby Playbook

How Big Tech’s power has rewritten digital rules globally

https://www.somo.nl/big-tech-lobby-playbook/

Big Tech giants have developed a powerful playbook to shape laws and politics in their favour, all around the world.

Our Big Tech Lobby Playbook series explores their tools and strategies through 6 case studies from Australia, Brazil, India, the EU, Kenya and the US.

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The final article draws the thread together, exposing a deliberate, interconnected system across continents, legal systems, and institutions.

This series is meant to support civil society organisations, trade unions, workers, activists, academics, small businesses, and journalists fighting back.

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RE: https://mastodon.com.pl/@oaj/116047610483862405

Isn't Tusk the one who often warns Polish citizens about Russian disinformation aimed at Poland? 🧐

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Which EU country will be the first to officially move its public institutions to a national Mastodon instance, bringing political debate to the Fediverse and away from disinformation platforms like X?

We know some national-level instances already exist (e.g. in Germany). The question is: who will make it a political decision, not just a technical one?

If you think of another country, add it in the comments 👇

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Emails show Zuckerberg questioned research on Meta's harmful effects after repercussions on teenagers' mental health
https://www.theverge.com/report/874176/meta-zuckerberg-new-mexico-email-teen-girls-research

“One day after The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster story about Meta’s own dismal findings about teen girls’ mental health on Instagram, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wondered whether Meta should change how it studies its platforms’ potential harms.

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This analogy will become our motto: big tech social media is the new tobacco.

We’re taking far too long to realize it’s a cancer for democracies.

Martin Gak: So telegram sent a political propaganda message attacking Pedro Sanchez to every single Spanish user. Think of that... a non national actor building a political campaign with unparalleled reach. Every Spanish user... I have to give it to Pavel Durov. He managed to show in under 200 words what I’ve been trying to argue for years: digital infrastructure is critical infrastructure and unprotected it amounts to a massive security vulnerability that endangers the state, its citizens and its democratic rule. By hijacking Spain’s national communication with a parallel national communication system to push a call for political subversion against efforts to protect children and uphold the law, he showed what happens when critical infrastructure is not protected or is allowed to fall into the wrong hands. This episode also explains why far-right networks across the West are panicking over threats to their propaganda channels. The stakes are clear: control over digital infrastructure shapes public discourse, legal integrity, and the safety of the most vulnerable. Indeed, Telegram, Twitter, Insta and Tiktok are the main instrument of the new emerging FachoInter.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@chrisstoecker/116006342566696963

He has real friends: politicians who endorse his actions by using his tool of disinformation and hate speech. Ironically, it is a tool that tries to undermine democracies:

https://leavex.eu/politicians

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tweakers/116002739845049959

'Musk ignored security team X warnings about pornographic AI use.'

Elon Musk has been warned several times by X's security team that the platform's AI tools would allow users to create sexual images of children or celebrities, The Washington Post reports. The CEO ignored those warnings.

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For those ~500 new followers in the last week, here is our main reasoning why the argument that you have to stay on social networks to provide opposition is complete nonsense

https://leavex.eu/posts/why-stay-on-social-media-makes-no-sense/

If you agree, please share. This is mainly for those of you who still have or know of representatives on X, whatever their reason may be.

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Only 17% of Austrian MPs are still on X.
Compare that to Sweden, 66%, the Netherlands, 63%, and the EU, 58%, that gap is striking.

Finland is often cited as a leader in digital literacy and counter-disinformation. It makes me curious how Finnish politicians assess X today, as a neutral platform, or as an active disinformation risk.

Which European country will be the first to seriously lead by example and walk away from this disinformation machine?

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Grassroots political groups, parties, and democratic institutions across Europe are already active on the Fediverse.

So why are so many elected representatives still giving attention and legitimacy to the disinformation platform X, whose goal is to undermine democracies?

Official Mastodon servers exist.
Pixelfed exists.

A healthier public debate is right there.
Where are their communication teams, and why are they ignoring this public space?

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We’ve redefined how the statistics are calculated. From now on, only politicians with an X account are counted. We’ve also updated the wording from “inactive” to “exited”.

If a MEP has an X account and hasn’t publicly stated that they left, they are considered active. Only MEPs who delete their account or explicitly announce they are leaving X are counted as out of X.

There are still 418 MEPs (58%) to go

https://leavex.eu/politicians/

Thank you to everyone who provided corrections!

Acttive MEPs go from 60% to 58%.
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We now have a new homepage! It took some time to create the custom layout (thanks to aivuk on GitHub!), but the result is minimalist.

https://leavex.eu

A few minor adjustments are still necessary, but we're ready to add new countries!

See the replies for details on how to contribute.

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Dear Fedi friends, I need your help!

We are working on motion graphics for the Fediverse promotional video... and we would love to do a sequence at the end with a mosaic of people's profile photos. For that, I need your consent.

If you'd like to have a small cameo in our video, can you let us know if we can use your profile pic?

Thanks! 🙏

Can you please boost this?

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@_elena if a campaign logo counts, this profile consents.

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As democracies become digital, the EU Digital Services Act helps keep elections free and fair.

We've presented a toolkit to support national regulators in safeguarding the electoral process integrity in the EU.

It will help mitigate risks on very large online platforms and search engines like:
🔸 Hate speech
🔸 Online harassment
🔸 Public opinion manipulation
🔸 AI-generated content, impersonation

We stay committed to protecting fundamental rights in the digital space.

ℹ️ https://europa.eu/!7FjKKn

A visual showing the text “Supporting our thriving democracy” marked with a highlighter. Below is the text “with the Digital Services Act. The European Commission’s logo is at the bottom-right corner of the visual.
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@EUCommission While you say that the Digital Services Act keep elections free and fair, we would like to speak loud and clear to all European politicians:

STOP THE RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA IN EUROPE!
LEAVE X, NOW!

Please, protect democracy, sign, and share if your local representative this Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter

https://leavex.eu

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