Digital Policy and Digital Rights 📱/ @GroenLinks Europa 💚❤️/ @GreensEFA 🌿/ European Parliament 🇪🇺
Joined February 2018
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Morgen wordt een cruciaal moment voor de EU: de herverkiezing van de voorzitter van de Europese Commissie staat op de agenda. Nu @vonderleyen is voorgedragen door de EU-landen, is het aan het Europees Parlement om zijn oordeel te vellen.
Wat kunnen we verwachten? 🧵
This (small) telephone book-sized European AI Act has officially been published today! 🇪🇺
Proud moment after years of work.
Thanks @EU_Commission for the hardcopy!
Available in all 24 EU languages here 👇
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Eindelijk! Na lang aandringen van @paultang en mij bevestigt de Europese Commissie nu: het 'je geld of je data'-model van Instagram en Facebook is illegaal. Meta moet hier nu mee stoppen en riskeert daarnaast een miljardenboete. Goed nieuws voor het internet!
📢We informed @Meta of our preliminary finding that its “pay or consent” model fails to comply with the Digital Markets Act
👉It forces users to consent to the combination of their personal data, and fails to provide a less personalised equivalent
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Als jongeren uren per dag op TikTok zitten – waar extreemrechtse content vaker wordt bevoordeeld – verbaast het mij niet dat jongeren massaal op de PVV stemden. Dit is waar techkapitalisme, extreemrechts en Poetin elkaar de hand schudden.
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Rechtse partijen doen alsof klimaatbeleid ervoor heeft gezorgd dat boeren nu in de knel zitten.
Trap er niet in.
Dit is pure afleiding van wat er echt speelt: een landbouwsysteem gebaseerd op liberalisering en schaalvergroting waar alleen multinationals de vruchten van plukken.
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Reactie vanuit Europees perspectief: Deze nieuwe regering doet alsof het de belangen van Nederlanders voorop zet, terwijl het alles op het spel zet waar Nederland voor staat. groenlinkspvda.nl/nieuws/rea…
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🚨 Breaking! TikTok stops the TikTok Lite reward programme in the EU!
A first big win in the fight against addictive design. To me, this only the start. Our fight continues. Let's start with the rest of TikTok. 💪
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🚨 Woah! The @EU_Commission's first serious action under the DSA - and it's on addictive design! Happy my report has started a strong fight against addictive design and that the DSA is finally showing some muscles! Big Tech’s addictive design tricks are out of control.
2nd inquiry into #TikTok under #DSA:
👉TikTok may have launched #TikTokLite in 🇫🇷& 🇪🇸 w/o assessing the risk of addictive behaviour, esp. for minors
👉We communicated our intention to suspend #TikTok Lite in 🇪🇺 pending the assessment of its safety
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BREAKING: The Parliament just adopted my proposal to reject the Commission's decision to award 150 million to Tunisian dictator Saied.
@vonderleyen I expect you to listen to this crystal clear resolution by the EP.
Stop sacrificing human rights to pursue your migration agenda.
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🥳 We did it! A majority of EU Member States supports the platform work directive. Despite all the lobbying and Macron's and FDP's resistance, platform workers will finally have basic rights and protection against Uber, Bolt and Deliveroo. A huge win for the platform workers!
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Breaking! 📣
EU-Hof oordeelt voor goed: de huidige online tracking en datahandel achter gepersonaliseerde advertenties van bedrijven als Google, Facebook en TikTok is illegaal.
fd.nl/bedrijfsleven/1509528/…
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In reacting to 'creative interpretations', Mistral's CEO dodges the elephant in the room: was Mistral pushing for softer EU rules on foundation models in the #AIAct while negotiating an investment from Microsoft? There is no answer to that. 3/10
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Clarifying a couple of things since we’re reading creative interpretations of our latest announcements:
- We’re still committed to leading open-weight models! We ask for a little patience, 1.5k H100s only got us that far.
- We have a reselling agreement with Microsoft, that we’re very excited about. Alongside similar partnerships, it will accelerate our growth.
- Microsoft invested in a small convertible note alongside many other companies, as a distribution partner. We are an independent European company with global ambitions, that part is not changing either.
We’re seeing some interest for Le Chat and Mistral Large, on both la Plateforme and Azure, and we’ll be iterating fast!
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The Mistral-Microsoft partnership is having a political fallout: Green MEPs sent the Commission a letter raising questions on possible conflicts of interests and transparency issues about Mistral's lobbying on the #AIAct. A 🧵1/10
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This is a mind-blowing announcement. Mistral AI, the French company that has been fighting tooth and nail to water down the #AIAct's foundation model rules, is partnering up with Microsoft. So much for 'give us a fighting chance against Big Tech'. A 🧵1/8
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Goed nieuws! @EU_Commission is een onderzoek gestart naar TikToks verslavende algoritmen. Dit was een van de belangrijke oproepen in mijn @Europarl_EN voorstellen tegen smartphoneverslaving. Nu over tot actie tegen dit soort algoritmen en alle vormen van verslavend ontwerp. 🔥
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Great news! @EU_Commission started investigating the addictive design of TikTok's algorithms. This was one of the important calls in my @Europarl_EN Addictive Design Report. Now on to concrete action against these systems and against all forms of addictive design. 🔥
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Increasingly, the LGBTIQ+ community, people of colour, and other minorities encounter hate speech, especially online. This needs to stop.
That's why we need to add hate speech and hate crimes to the list of EU crimes, to make sure everyone can feel safe everywhere in Europe.
Wanneer @eventothier met Snelle een liedje maakt over je EU voorstellen @kimvsparrentak 👀🥹
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🚨 Bad news actually for anyone who wants to stream Parlement... After our success in IMCO, an aggressive media lobby campaign swayed a majority of the EP to vote AGAINST ending geoblocking of streaming services.
