It's unfortunate how often I've had to pull this article out of the drawer recently, but I wrote about what happens when US tech interests converge with the administrations' ideologues earlier this year (and have a continuation of this piece which brings in the NSS out soon).
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Trump, Silicon Valley, and Europe’s Far-right - International Centre for Defence and Security
A new transatlantic alliance is forming. The old partnership was based on advancing liberal democracy, upholding the rules-based international order, and a security contract between the US and Europe....
It's not just Breton either, but also current directors of NGOs working on disinformation and to counter hate speech online in Europr. This will have a major chilling effect on European other NGOs and think tanks working in this space too. US admin showing the NSS means business.
