Anne Applebaum

The Digital Services Act was designed to create greater transparency. So, for example, to force X or to force Facebook to reveal to users how it uses their information, how it uses their data, how it uses their algorithms so that it affects what they see. It's not designed to censor. There wouldn't be a ministry of information that decides what can and can't be shown.

But there would be more information provided to users. The social media companies in the United States very much resent any kind of European regulation. And this includes antitrust regulation, which has also affected Microsoft and Google and other companies. And X appears to be particularly worried about the Digital Services Act changing regulation.

But there would be more information provided to users. The social media companies in the United States very much resent any kind of European regulation. And this includes antitrust regulation, which has also affected Microsoft and Google and other companies. And X appears to be particularly worried about the Digital Services Act changing regulation.

But there would be more information provided to users. The social media companies in the United States very much resent any kind of European regulation. And this includes antitrust regulation, which has also affected Microsoft and Google and other companies. And X appears to be particularly worried about the Digital Services Act changing regulation.

what it's able to do in Europe and changing the political role that Musk seems to want to play inside elections in Europe. One of the things that Europeans believe is that the reason for the intervention is to promote anti-European parties who will work against the EU and who will therefore prevent this regulation.

what it's able to do in Europe and changing the political role that Musk seems to want to play inside elections in Europe. One of the things that Europeans believe is that the reason for the intervention is to promote anti-European parties who will work against the EU and who will therefore prevent this regulation.

what it's able to do in Europe and changing the political role that Musk seems to want to play inside elections in Europe. One of the things that Europeans believe is that the reason for the intervention is to promote anti-European parties who will work against the EU and who will therefore prevent this regulation.

It certainly looks like that's what's happening. There isn't really another plausible explanation for why so many of them have begun to support anti-European political parties. Also, it's true that some of them have said it. Mark Zuckerberg, in some statements he made a month or two ago, said that we need to avoid any kind of regulation whatsoever. J.D.

It certainly looks like that's what's happening. There isn't really another plausible explanation for why so many of them have begun to support anti-European political parties. Also, it's true that some of them have said it. Mark Zuckerberg, in some statements he made a month or two ago, said that we need to avoid any kind of regulation whatsoever. J.D.

It certainly looks like that's what's happening. There isn't really another plausible explanation for why so many of them have begun to support anti-European political parties. Also, it's true that some of them have said it. Mark Zuckerberg, in some statements he made a month or two ago, said that we need to avoid any kind of regulation whatsoever. J.D.

Vance said before Christmas in an interview that, you know, Europeans, if they're going to regulate our tech companies, then maybe we shouldn't offer them security through NATO, which, by the way, that quotation has been much repeated and much discussed in Europe over the last couple of months.

Vance said before Christmas in an interview that, you know, Europeans, if they're going to regulate our tech companies, then maybe we shouldn't offer them security through NATO, which, by the way, that quotation has been much repeated and much discussed in Europe over the last couple of months.

Vance said before Christmas in an interview that, you know, Europeans, if they're going to regulate our tech companies, then maybe we shouldn't offer them security through NATO, which, by the way, that quotation has been much repeated and much discussed in Europe over the last couple of months.

So comments made by both from the tech world and from the current administration have led Europeans to believe that this is an important motivation for the Trump administration.

So comments made by both from the tech world and from the current administration have led Europeans to believe that this is an important motivation for the Trump administration.

So comments made by both from the tech world and from the current administration have led Europeans to believe that this is an important motivation for the Trump administration.

It's not clear to me yet that Trump is aligning himself with Putin. It's clear that he has agreed to many of Putin's explanations of and theories about the war in Ukraine. So he does use some of Putin's language when he talks about the war. He seems to be influenced by Russian propaganda and by Russia's characterization of the war.

It's not clear to me yet that Trump is aligning himself with Putin. It's clear that he has agreed to many of Putin's explanations of and theories about the war in Ukraine. So he does use some of Putin's language when he talks about the war. He seems to be influenced by Russian propaganda and by Russia's characterization of the war.

It's not clear to me yet that Trump is aligning himself with Putin. It's clear that he has agreed to many of Putin's explanations of and theories about the war in Ukraine. So he does use some of Putin's language when he talks about the war. He seems to be influenced by Russian propaganda and by Russia's characterization of the war.

He may also be influenced by Vance or by Musk or by others around him who have convinced him that Europe, like other American allies like Canada, are somehow ripping off the United States, that the U.S. is somehow a victim of Europe. And I would say those are more important than any kind of alignment.