Freedom has more to gain than lose from the emergence of influencers—people who don’t depend on anyone—and the rise of social media as the preferred source of information.
Online followers—often teens—are invited to private chat groups where they are exposed to and encouraged to share extremist and violent anti-Western jihadist propaganda.
One video paid for using EU taxpayer funds compares Geert Wilders to Hitler, Giorgia Meloni to Mussolini, Marine Le Pen to Putin, and Viktor Orbán’s Hungary to Nazi Germany.
Besides cases of scams, the bill will be approved against the backdrop of increased vigilance by President Macron against his opponents, including ordinary citizens who express their opposition on social media.
The spin operation was uncovered when it was revealed that an intermediary PR firm being paid by the Azeri government had coaxed an Australian academic to sign his name to a misleading piece about the blockade of the Lachin Corridor.
