If you're following the @EP_SingleMarket exchange of views on the Digital Services Act & Digital Markets Act starting shortly, there'll be slides from the Commission presented. Here are the DSA ones: europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_…
.@prabprab appears in @EP_SingleMarket to discuss DSA/DMA after some much-needed time off!
EC @prabprab on Trusted Flaggers in #DSA: "It makes sense to have a special privileged channel exists to notify a platform on the presence of illegal goods and content on a platform, subject to a range of safeguards...to ensure these privileged challenges cannot be abused."
After @charanzova raised concerns on the country of origin principle, @prabprab says the board (European Board for Digital Services) "comes together as an advisory function...we leave Article 3 of e-Commerce directive untouched."
After #CapitolHill @kimvsparrentak says: "We need to take power over our freedom of expression, out of the hands of private companies, and put it back in the hands of democratic institutions."
@schirdewan: "Over the past week, we saw it firsthand that digital platforms were able to help shape political events. This surely should encourage us to act financially, legally, and politically."
EC on accountability in Digital Services Act: "It is no longer acceptable in our view that platforms take some key decisions by themselves, alone without any supervision, accountability and without any sort of dialogue or transparency."
Commission on DSA in terms of #CapitolHill: "I do believe that had the rules of the DSA been in place platforms would have acted earlier with greater public scrutiny, also by researchers more consistently would have also protected freedoms more effectively."

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11 Jan
And here's the Commission's presentation on the Digital Markets Act, to be discussed after the DSA in @EP_SingleMarket shortly: europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_…
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There was a bizarre European conspiracy doing the rounds on far-right platforms in the hours leading up to the US #CapitolHill riots earlier this week, inexplicably drawing in one EU member state to the 'fraudulent' election claims. Bear with me on this one...
I spent some time trawling through social media networks as well as some of the more fringe platforms, and stumbled upon an outlandish story that had garnered a lot of attention from far-right extremists online.
This was the claim that an Italian civil servant, 'Stefan Serafini,' based in Rome, had colluded with former President Barack Obama, ex Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi & Leonardo SPA (an Italian aerospace defence contractor), to rig the 2020 US elections.
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There's a lot of important background to this Clearview AI in the EU story. Sit tightly. euractiv.com/section/data-p…
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So, 5G journos may have just spent 3 pointless years chasing around unfounded 5G cybersec myths..
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1/ This is either remarkably unconscionable or profoundly negligent from the European Commission.

A SHORT THREAD.

I recently found out that President @vonderleyen met the CEO of one of the US's most controversial big data analytics firms, Palantir, at Davos this year...
2/ Yes, the same Palantir founded by Peter Thiel - billionaire Facebook investor who donated millions to Donald Trump's 2016 Presidential election...
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3/....& the same Palantir known for its work with US intelligence agencies during the war on terror & its partnership with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in executing deportations of immigrants from the United States: theintercept.com/2017/03/02/pal…
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