Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan (www.theguardian.com)

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Second, companies in this increasingly autocratic and hostile US control every major digital platform that Europeans use to debate and share news, with the exception of TikTok, which is Chinese. Even Europe’s news organisations rely on Google and other US advertising technology companies for online revenue. Trump can humiliate or cripple the oligarchs who control these companies.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1S110Y/

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/criticism-of-ukraines-language-law-justified-rights-body-idUSKBN1E227I/

https://apnews.com/article/e971db860c7a4c12a5240fc08ce6c95e

I would recommend searching "site:reuters.com Ukraine nationalists" and set date before 2020, even western press were reporting very differently before then. It was only after Biden took office that the narrative shifted completely.

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