{"id":599832,"date":"2026-02-19T00:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/599832\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:39:26","slug":"macron-slams-tech-giants-claim-they-are-defending-free-speech-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/599832\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron slams tech giants\u2019 claim they are defending free speech \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll the algorithms have biases, we know that. There is no doubt,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And they are so impactful, when you speak about social media, that having no clue about how the algorithm is made, how it is tested and where it will guide you \u2014 the democratic biases of this could be huge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since returning to office in 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration has cast Europe\u2019s tech rules as a threat to America\u2019s free speech tradition.<\/p>\n<p>While Brussels has spent the past decade designing legislation to rein in Big Tech through landmark laws like the GDPR, Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, Washington frames many of those efforts as incompatible with U.S. principles on free expression.<\/p>\n<p>That dispute has triggered a broader political clash, with U.S. officials and tech companies warning that Europe\u2019s content moderation rules amount to censorship, while EU leaders insist the measures are necessary to curb illegal content and platform abuses.<\/p>\n<p>Macron has repeatedly called for restrictions on access to social media access for younger users, as a groundswell of European political sentiment builds in support of his position. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAll the algorithms have biases, we know that. There is no doubt,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And they are so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":599833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[21234,738,8291,8703,25648,1567,3062,26450,398,236660,50,2855,4995,345,52655,103],"class_list":["post-599832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-algorithms","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-big-tech","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-guide","tag-india","tag-intelligence","tag-macron","tag-media","tag-munich-security-conference","tag-news","tag-platforms","tag-security","tag-social-media","tag-transparency","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116094511895732817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}