Rumbling away throughout 2024 was EU threats to take action against Twitter/X for abandoning fact-checking. The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) is clear on its requirements - so that conflict will escalate. If X won’t change, presumably ultimately it will be banned from the EU.
Meta have decided they’d rather keep EU market access. Today they announced the removal of fact-checking, but only for Americans. Europeans can still benefit from the higher standards the Digital Services Act guarantees.
The next 10 years will see the power of mis/disinformation accelerate with AI. Meta itself seems to be embracing this trend by purposefully integrating fake AI profiles into its networks. From now on it looks like the main battle-ground to deal with this is going to be the EU.
He’s already talking about annexing you and he hasn’t even taken office, how much worse could it be?
Famous last words, lol.
The dude is incoherent, so it’s hard to tell if he says annexation but means a 5% tariff, or if he’s serious and also going to decimate the population to show who’s boss. Intending one and then forgetting to do it is also an option. If he really means it, Canada’s military is a joke, that won’t change in under a month, and the rest of the Western world probably can’t help in that timeframe either.
That being said, he actually just ruled out using military force to get Canada. Panama and Greenland are valid military targets according to the same press conference, though.