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Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

Euronews is publishing op-eds from 🇺🇸lobbyists & pretending they're news articles. It blasts "decoupling fantasies & grandstanding" from those wary of 🇺🇸, and praises VDL's 🇺🇸🇪🇺 surrender deal. It was written by "EU Tech Loop", the blog of a 🇺🇸 lobbying group. But it's labelled as a normal news article

euronews.comUS rights to free speech vs. European rights to set their own rulesEuropeans and Americans talk past each other while rivals watch. The EU can set its own standards, but in an interconnected economy, decoupling fantasies and grandstanding won’t help.
Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

"EU Tech Loop" is the blog of Consumer Choice Center Europe, a lobbying organisation that you can learn more about here. They have an agreement with Euronews to publish these 'articles'. Nothing wrong with op-eds or sponsored articles when they're *labelled as such*, but this is deceptive.

tobaccotactics.orgConsumer Choice Center - Tobacco TacticsThe Consumer Choice Center (CCC) is a US lobby organisation based in Washington DC, operating since 2017. CCC has received funding from transnational tobacco companies and has lobbied against the regu...

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
@corporateeurope.org

To make matters worse, Consumer Choice Center Europe is fully funded by Meta and Google! The 'EU Tech Loop' articles on Euronews should be seen as part of US Big Tech lobbying against the EU’s digital rulebook ⚠️ See also our report published earlier this month corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...

corporateeurope.orgAddicted to the algorithm | Corporate Europe ObservatoryAs the EU prepares the Digital Fairness Act to tackle the addictive nature of social media design, big tech aggressively protects its business models. With Trumpists and far-right allies likely to joi...