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Spain's leader wants the EU to ‘make social media great again.’ Here's how
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is launching a crusade against what he sees as the downsides of social media.
Sánchez will urge European officials to apply the 27-nation bloc’s Digital Services Act to “force open the black box of social media algorithms.” The EU adopted the law in 2023 with the stated goal of keeping internet users safe online. EU officials said last week that they ordered X to turn over more information as part of a Digital Services Act investigation into the social media platform, including on the algorithms used by its recommendationr system. Argentine President Javier Milei, who also was attending the Davos meeting and on Thursday gave a speech railing against what he described as the evils of “woke” progressive policies, panned Sánchez’s proposal.
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