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Dic
2025
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Escudo Europeo de la Democracia: algoritmos de plataformas en línea de muy gran tamaño, injerencias extranjeras y difusión de desinformación (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, Elon Musk is doing a lot of research on self-driving cars. Just imagine a system in which the strongest, most aggressive car will always have priority. It is impossible. It would be a lot of dead people. But what is happening right now on X is exactly that: the most hateful, the worst postings have the most viewers because of the algorithm. So the algorithm he is organising is against us. And the next thing: he's buying politicians in the United States, even judges. And that's what he wants to do in Europe as well. He wants to buy European politicians and he already tries to influence European politics. And we are standing here and saying, 'no, that's fine'? No, it's not fine. We will not accept it. If the right-wing people say there is censorship, yes, there is censorship right now, because the algorithms of Mr Musk, they are they are censorship. People cannot see what they want. They have to see what Musk gives them. And that is hateful. I tell you, as a former journalist, that as an editor‑in‑chief you have a lot of responsibility. And Musk has everything, but no responsibility. He doesn't care. On the contrary, he wants hate speech, and if you had that on a normal medium, you would go to jail. So that's the point. Mr Musk must accept he has to have responsibility, and that's the only way we can do that. Mr Commissioner, we need very strong legislation and we need a strong Commission, and he has to pay for that.