The #Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of #Europe

https://www.wired.com/story/the-disinformation-warning-coming-from-the-edge-of-europe/

#privacy #politics

It would be better for @EUCommission to simply ban #X / #Twitter app from European Union 🇪🇺 App Stores (both #Google & #Apple).

That would be far more effective & avoid a long & expensive legal battle in court. Going after unrelated companies would also discourage tech companies from doing more business in #Europe.

👉🏾 EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk’s other firms https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/eu-considers-calculating-x-fines-by-including-revenue-from-musks-other-firms/ 🔛 @arstechnica

EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk’s other firms

Musk could face DSA fines of up to 6% of global revenue—including SpaceX sales.

^{Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)}

De ondergang van #Europa via @arjenlubach

#Tech #Europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsz08a5Foj0

NEW EPISODE:

Around Europe, mysterious acts of sabotage have been multiplying. And there's a pattern: the perpetrators were recruited on Telegram via accounts linked to Russian agencies. This week, we hear about an investigation where journalists went undercover to figure out how this recruitment actually works.

https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/russias-mysterious-sabotage-campaign

#podcast #news #politics #geopolitics #russia #estonia #telegram #tech #europe #eu #europeanunion

Russia's mysterious sabotage campaign

Arson, vandalism, attacks on NATO vehicles: around Europe, mysterious acts of sabotage have been multiplying. And there's a pattern: the perpetrators were recruited on Telegram via accounts linked to Russian agencies.

^{The Europeans}

DNA-researcher: 'It’s not 'woke' to portray prehistoric Europeans with dark skin. It’s evolution'

#skinpigment #Europe #prehistoric #aDNA #anthropology

https://www.sciencenordic.com/archaeology-denmark-history/dna-researcher-its-not-woke-to-portray-prehistoric-europeans-with-dark-skin-its-evolution/2273715

DNA-researcher: It’s not 'woke' to portray prehistoric Europeans with dark skin. It’s evolution.

Ancient DNA analyses suggest that prehistoric Europeans looked different from modern Europeans today, but some people find that hard to accept.

^{Hannes Schroeder (ScienceNordic)}

We got fooled by a good looking motorhome https://videos.trom.tf/w/hW9ZUtWyVJg6fPCNTF8hmL

#motorhome #van #camper #europe #spain #trade

We got fooled by a good looking motorhome

Unfortunately our "perfect" motorhome is not that perfect it seems. After a mechanical inspection we decided not to buy it.

^{videos.trom.tf}

#Poland’s leader plans to suspend the right to #asylum as country faces pressure on #Belarus #border

Source: https://apnews.com/article/poland-migration-asylum-right-suspension-belarus-1716d8872d38caa25b01ac02a5348a69

Through its involvement in the lost wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan, Poland has contributed significantly to the refugee flows. Refusing to accept refugees is therefore not only ethically reprehensible but also a testimony to inhumane criminal politics.

#europe #eu #refugees #humanrights #humanity #Problem #politics #ethics #fail #news #crime #military #war

Poland's leader plans to suspend the right to asylum

Poland’s leader says he plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a new migration policy. Prime Minister Donald Tusk pointed to its alleged abuse by eastern neighbor Belarus and Russia.

^{AP News}

🔴 🇪🇸 DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville

"On Thursday, after two decades of DNA testing and research, the forensic medical expert José Antonio Lorente said the incomplete set of remains in Seville Cathedral were indeed those of Columbus."

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/11/dna-study-christopher-columbus-remains-seville-cathedral

#History #Histodon #Histodons #DNA #Genetics #Science #Seville #Spain #Europe #Colonialism @science @histodon @histodons

DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville

Scientists have ‘definitively’ proved identity of remains – with navigator’s precise origins to be revealed

^{Sam Jones (The Guardian)}

#PACE hearing on Julian #Assange's #detention and conviction and their chilling effects on human rights

watch: https://www.youtube.com/live/Mq85IZMeigc?t=746s

It is a shame for Western democracy that neither #Sweden nor the #UK have a review and a committee of inquiry into the failure of justice and US interference in the supposedly independent judiciary in the Assange case. Unfortunately, many politicians in Western Europe believe that human rights are only violated in Russia, China or Afghanistan, but not on their own doorstep. Distracted by the many crises and the rise of far-right parties, Europe is heading straight into diabolical chaos 😱

#humanrights #europe #politics #justice #wikileaks #journalism #press #freedom #democracy #news #ethics #fail #problem #future #USA #torture #scandal

Woo hoo! 🥳 🎉 The Court of Justice of the EU (top court for EU law) says a legal gender (& name) change must be regonised across the whole EU! 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️✊🏻🇪🇺

https://tgeu.org/joint-statement-eu-court-of-justice-strengthens-trans-rights-by-calling-for-the-automatic-recognition-in-birth-certificates-of-a-new-name-and-gender-marker-obtained-in-another-member-state/
#trans #eu #europe #TransRights

Joint statement: EU Court of Justice strengthens trans rights by calling for the automatic recognition in

ACCEPT, TGEU and ILGA-Europe welcome today’s decision of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU)  in case C-4/23 Mirin, strengthening the rights of trans people.

^{TGEU (TGEU - Transgender Europe)}

#CSAM Regulation Update: Dutch #Intelligence agency weighs in

Source: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dutch-intel-service-csam-update/

The resulting situation is regarded by #AIVD as too large a risk for our #digital #resilience. (…) Applying detection orders to providers of end-to-end encrypted communications entails too large a #security risk for our digital resilience.

#news #backdoor #encryption #e2e #chat #communication #surveillance #bigbrother #cybercrime #cybersecurity #chatcontrol #privacy #eu #politics #Software #Europe #Smartphone #mobile

@Tim_Struppel
"17 décembre 1929
L'Allemagne est en faillite. Tant mieux. Notre jour approche. Notre récolte mûrit. A l'oeuvre !"

"« En #politique, les #idees ne l'emportent jamais si on ne sait pas mettre à leur service la force matérielle. »

« Nous ne cherchons pas la #verite mais l'effet produit »

- Journal de #Goebbels, futur #Ministre de la #Propagance

https://www.geo.fr/histoire/goebbels-et-le-grand-spectacle-de-la-propagande-nazie-200479

#haine #violence #obscurantisme #mort #europe #psy #frustration #messie #mensonge

@Tim_Struppel
« Les grandes masses sont #aveugles et #stupides […]. La seule chose qui soit stable, c’est l’#émotion et la #haine."
- #Hitler, Dictateur tueur de masse

« Le moteur d’un mouvement idéologique n’est pas une question de compréhension mais de foi »
- Journal de #Goebbels, #Chef de la #Propagance (1930), #Ministre de l'#Education du #peuple et de la Propagande (1933)

#haine #violence #obscurantisme #frustration #mort #genocide #europe #psy #frustration #messie

Inside the world of Martin Sellner, millennial influencer of Europe’s far right

The Post spent time with Sellner to understand his secretive movement and how his rhetoric found its way into the Trump campaign and Austria’s election on Sunday.

Archived:
https://archive.ph/9aOZ3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/28/martin-sellner-far-right-austria-election/

#Europe #Racist #MartinSeller #WashPost

@FRA @EUCouncil
@EUCommission

#Legal #Surveillance #GDPDR #China #TikTok
(1/n)

#Europe needs to protect its citizens from foreign interference, not only from #Chinese platforms like #TikTok, #Temu, and #Shein, but also from the likes of #Meta and #X. #GDPDR needs an upgrade:

Via #ZeyiYang from #Wired

"Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (#PAFACA),...

👉By comparing #TikTok’s data security ...

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-defense-china-ban/

TikTok's Defense Strategy Involves Throwing Shein and Temu Under the Bus

In an attempt to defend itself against a ban in the US, TikTok has pointed out that other Chinese companies could be collecting as much data as it does.

^{Zeyi Yang (WIRED)}