Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny Ryan

Elon Musk has suggested overthrowing the UK government, asking if “ America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government” He hosted Germany ’s far-right candidate for chancellor in a livestream discussion on social media platform X, which he owns.

It is likely that his rigging of X 's algorithm helped push both into millions of people's feeds.

Jeff Bezos has neutered the Washington Post , Mark Zuckerberg has gutted Meta 's content moderation and Google will probably be next.

Ireland has suffered little pressure from Brussels to take its foot off the brakes on big tech.

Instead, petty enforcement and misapplication of the GDPR has terrorised Europe ’s small businesses and spammed everybody with consent popups.

The European court has yet to rule in the case.