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
First time I see #Mastodon mentioned in my French journal #LeMonde, with a link to a Mastodon post like they normally do for twitter!
In this case they link to this post from @netblocks about internet cuts in Iran:
https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/116175384626062914
Link to the original article: https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2026/03/05/en-direct-guerre-en-iran-des-explosions-entendues-a-teheran-l-iran-affirme-avoir-vise-les-quartiers-generaux-de-groupes-kurdes-en-irak_6668663_3210.html
Topic is the war on Iran.. #IranWar
If you were planning to stay on top of the latest developments in EU Careers and the #EPSO competitions, you can't do it anymore on #X. They just closed their account there.
RE: https://social.coop/@Wtebbens/116170715413006689
As a minor note: Leave X is a campaign started by an immigrant from Latin America living in Germany.
But that's okay, there are some cool folks in France I'll be meeting next week also doing awesome like minded work. Just check https://openportability.org
It facilitates people to migrate from X to Mastodon or Bluesky.
It's really amazing how TikTok is trying hard to fight its non-stop disinformation campaigns.
Is it some sort of competition with X?
How AI-Generated Influencers Exploit Celebrities to Sell Synthetic Nudes
https://indicator.media/p/how-ai-generated-influencers-exploit-celebrities-to-sell-synthetic-nudes
In 2025, Big Techâjust ten major companiesâspent âŹ49 million lobbying Brussels. Thatâs more than pharma, finance, and automotive combined.
Google funds all sixteen major European think tanks shaping EU policy. Not *some* of them. All of them. Amazon and Meta fund most of the rest.
This is no longer âpoor old me, I need a bit of help,â this is full regulatory capture. With a view to becoming even more embedded into businesses and governments, and getting whatever favorable legislation passed or diluted to suit them.
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels
@Enea90
Musk says EU 'should be abolished'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/12/07/musk-says-eu-should-be-abolished-after-fine-against-x_6748235_4.html
"Follow us" on the EU Commission web site. Icon buttons that encourages citizens of Europe to register on the US data harvesting services with opaque algorithms of unknown purpose:
Meta Facebook, Elon Musk X Corp, Microsoft LinkedIn.
@leanderlindahl @Enea90 a president can't be that naive. đ
@leanderlindahl I just checked the page of the French parliament out of the curiosity, and (God forbid!), they have the same thing, with X in first place.
RE: https://social.folkdata.se/@leanderlindahl/116169548074506618
We second your vote for @leanderlindahl as the president of Sweden. He will remove the advertisement for X-Corp and Meta from the parliament's website.
Slightly more information about this #citizenInitiative here for a #European #SocialMedia here: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2026/000004_en
IF This reaches the required amount of signatures it will have to be examined by the European Commission. What conclusion the commission will come to I cannot predict, but it may consider the option of building on existing infrastructure *cough* #mastodon *cough* âŠ
These processes take quite a long time, but Iâll keep updating here ;)
@hpod16 > "Following today's registration, the organisers have six months to open the 12-month period of signature collection. If an ECI receives at least one million statements of support during that time, with minimum numbers reached in at least seven Member States, the Commission is required to react, and decide what, if any, action it will take in response to the initiative, justifying its decision."
Cool, how and where will we gather these signatures? Will happily campaign for #Mastodon đ„
The European Commission has registered a new Citizen Initiative, calling for a European social media platform.
In detail: The initiative invites the Commission to establish, through a legislative act, âa public social media platform at the European levelâ. That "would form an alternative to the current platforms and work as a service for the society, be funded by the society and be under its oversightâ.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_522
@leanderlindahl @everton137 @wavesblog vicino al lago di Garda. Anche pio bello!
X, from 29 Sept "We collect information about your activity on X, including: metadata related to Encrypted Messages, and when you use Direct Messages, including the contents of the messages, the recipients, and date and time of messages" H/T @Privacymatters @mastodon.social
@protonprivacy @raisondetredev that's awesome!
Signed by a six-year customer.
Our recent survey shows that Europe is ready to ditch US technology, in favour of private alternatives.
Check out our write-up and the stats here: https://proton.me/blog/european-alternative-us-tech-survey
The European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) outlines here the different ways in which the world's largest tech companies are shamefully retreating from protecting their users.
Read why fighting disinformation is more important than ever: https://efcsn.com/news/2026-03-03_policy-white-paper-the-great-retreat/
White Paper https://efcsn.com/efcsn-white-paper-the-great-retreat/
#BigTech #SocialMedia #Disinformation #X #Meta #Facebook #TikTok #Google #YouTube #LinkedIn