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2026 Crypto Crime Report: Scams Record $17 billion estimated stolen in crypto scams and fraud in 2025 as impersonation tactics and AI enablement surge.

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Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament's trade committee, calls on the European Commission to "immediately" start proceedings on the Anti-Coercion Instrument in response to Trump's latest tariff threat.

Rather than the older retaliation packages Europe could also just put a 10% tariff on US imports or go straight to taxes on US services to react more strongly.

Then prepare escalation steps.

Europe has little choice but to hit back really hard since Trumps Greenland demand cannot be negotiated.

It does not have a choice. If it’s not invoked now we can just throw the ACI in the bin.

France delays G7 to avoid clash with White House cage fighting on Trump’s birthday French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said the new schedule is “the result of our consultations with G7 partners.”

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Poland Calls for EU Investigation of TikTok Over AI-Generated Disinformation Campaign Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs submitted a formal request to the European Commission, this week, demanding investigation of TikTok for

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Two families sue Meta over teens' deaths by suicide, citing 'sextortion' scams One boy joined Instagram on Sunday and was dead by Tuesday afternoon. His mother says the app is to blame.

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Allies and Rivals - Egmont Institute This is strategy. Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS), released on 4 December 2025, is bold and concise. One reads it, and one knows what the US wants. One may not […]

How should Europe respond to the US new national security strategy? Like this: www.egmontinstitute.be/allies-and-r...

X isn’t being penalised for hosting lawful speech. It is being penalised for business practices that make fraud easier and transparency harder. In any other sector, a product that enables impersonation or conceals the identity of advertisers would be recalled.

(3)Preventing researchers to scrutinize what is going on on its platform. X imposed unnecessary barriers and rejected valid applications from eligible researchers. A platform that calls itself a champion of transparency shouldn’t be afraid of independent scrutiny. What is there to hide?

X not only did not want to address these issues, but actively wants to prevent scrutiny in the fraud that its platform enables.

(2) A broken advertising transparency system
The DSA requires platforms to let users see who is paying to influence them. X’s ad library is incomplete, inconsistent, and missing essential disclosures. Without this transparency, scam ads are harder to be taken down.

(1) Misleading “verification” that enables impersonation scams: X turned the blue check into a paid badge without ensuring any meaningful verification. That design choice makes it dramatically easier for fraudsters to pose as real individuals, brands, or authorities.

The Commission’s findings focus on three failures of a broken product that have nothing to do with the opinions people express on the platform:

Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Today’s 120 million euro fine against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) will be spun as a decision against “free speech.” It’s not. (1/7) #digitalservicesact #dsa #dsa ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Translating the CJEU judgment in Amazon vs EC on art.40 DSA: (1) giving vetted researchers data isn’t a disproportionate privacy intrusion; (2) compliance may be costly but you can bear it; (3) if you have a better way to study systemic risks, we haven’t heard it. curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

Nathan Gill: How WhatsApp messages revealed ex-Reform politician's pro-Russian bribes - BBC News The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has admitted bribery and will be sentenced on Friday.

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7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

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‘We’re basically pushers’: Court filing alleges staff at social media giants compared their platforms to drugs Meta said the allegations “rely on cherry-picked quotes and misinformed opinions” to present a misleading narrative.

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This is real news. Reporters, please report on it.

ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech.

It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.

Reporters in Residence (Winter 2026) Remote

Attention, freelance tech reporters: Omydiar Network has an open call for their Winter 2026 Reporters in Residence program. Deadline: November 15. $8,000 a month stipend and $2,000 travel budget (totaling $50,000). Good luck! job-boards.greenhouse.io/omidyarnetwo...

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

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OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts Filed by child exploitation investigators with the DHS, the warrant reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide information on anyone who enters specific prompts.

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‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in US courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest...

The biggest source for any DSA investigation into addictive design features might not be platforms' risk assessments, but the more than 6 million documents that are part of the pretrial discovery process in the US www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

NIEUWS: AIVD en MIVD delen minder informatie met hun Amerikaanse partners. Dat zeggen de hoofden van de Nederlandse diensten in de Volkskrant. Peter Reesink (MIVD): ‘Dat we soms ook dingen niet meer vertellen, dat is waar.’ 1/5

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The UK government must tackle resistance from those who want to return to a “mythical past” as it develops its plans for AI-led economic growth, the new UK junior minister for artificial intelligence said www.mlex.com/mlex/artific...

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

‘Enormous fear’: Trump’s threats against George Soros chill US non-profits Civil society groups funded by billionaire’s charitable foundation feel vulnerable to administration’s attacks

Data compiled by The Chronicle of Philanthropy suggests at least 22,000 jobs were lost in the sector in the first six months of the year on.ft.com/4nBgdu4