Adrian Weckler

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The Indo Daily · Graham Norton v Meta, and the age of unavoidable online deception · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

So you said the social media networks take that to a more extreme level and a much more...

libertarian level and maybe a reckless level.

That's what the EU and the EU Commission would argue.

And that's why we're introducing all these EU laws.

I mean, look, you remember the Grok stuff from earlier on this year, the undressing of the miners.

That is framed in Silicon Valley minds as being...

sort of a worthwhile exercise in freedom from censorship that yes it's ugly yes it's disgusting but this is the price we have to pay if we want free speech on the internet we in europe take a very very different view of that we think it's dangerous we think that information sometimes for the good of the public has to be within a framework and it can't always be

By the way, on that Grok case, the European Commission is taking action against X on that case.

It also took another case against X for disinformation.

Not the only company, Meta has a case against it at the moment for scam content and deceptive advertising, again by the European Commission.

So the cogs are starting to roll on this, but it just takes a long time.

It has taken lawmakers an awful long time to catch up with this.

Yeah, it is.

Now, it's not all bad news because...

First of all, the fact that we're talking about this, I think three years ago, if we had talked about deep fakes or AI or how to spot viral scams online, I think the majority of people wouldn't have instinctively related to that or might have struggled.

I think it's a much more mainstream idea now.

And I think people are sort of starting to figure out that what they're looking at may not be real.

It's not like it's not it's not all doom and gloom, but we are kind of stuck with this because if I my 20 euro per month AI chatbot subscription enables me to do all sorts of stuff.

I made a video on this for independent.ie a few months ago just showing and it was me pretending to be walking through the matter hospital saying a bunch of things.

And really, I don't think you would have been able to tell it was a fake.

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