Much of the social media infrastructure that shapes political discourse today is privately controlled, American-based, and built on an absolutist interpretation of free speech that the rest of the world – including the European Union – neither shares nor benefits from.
As revealed in reports like Semafor’s coverage of group chats that changed American politics, the consolidation of power in opaque, privately owned digital spaces has profound consequences not only within the U.S., but globally…
not us! We’re busy spending millions to put copilot in the offices of public service employees! And we’re receiving “training” and encouragement to use it! (I work in the maltese govt’s datacenter, ffs)