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Stefan Heumann
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Managing Director @agoradigital.bsky.social
Think Tanker #techpolicy #andmore
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Reposted by Stefan Heumann
masnick.com
So the President of the United States of America is posting to his personal social media network blatantly fake news videos that I'm pretty sure are AI generated slop. This one is supposedly about Gavin Newsom panicking that Walmart is pulling out of California (it's not).
Post on Truth Social from Donald Trump. He's reposting some rando MAGA account saying: More bad news for Gavin Newson, The world's largest employer Walmart is closing 250 stores in California citing $22 per hour minimum wage leaves them on competitive with their small profit margin, wewee that's a big number, this man has the fifth largest economy in the world and has a more than $20 billion budget deficit and he wants to be president of the whole United States and the sad part is there will be more than 60 million people that will vote for him. This is over a video supposedly about Newsom and Walmart.
January 29, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
honkhase.de
In UK wird #Palantir hochkant rausgeworfen, da sie die Regierungen von Israel und USA bei illegaler Massenüberwachung, Deportation und Tötung unterstützen ❤️❤️❤️

"...is telling defence surveillance corporation Palantir to “pack its bags and get the hell out of the NHS”
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir
Zack Polanski is telling defence surveillance corporation Palantir to 'pack its bags and get the hell out of the NHS'.
www.thecanary.co
January 24, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
agoradigital.bsky.social
Fühlt es sich so an wirkungsorientiert zu arbeiten? Keine Panik! Unsere Data Scientist @vvnbnrt.bsky.social hat ein Poster veröffentlicht, das zeigt, wie Digitalpolitik mit messbaren Zielen und Indikatoren wirksamer werden kann.
👉Poster-Download: agoradigital.de/wp-content/u...
a woman is looking at a chalkboard with mathematical equations on it .
ALT: a woman is looking at a chalkboard with mathematical equations on it .
media.tenor.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:17 PM
4change.bsky.social
Good moment to share again as EU is considering its options to counter US economic coercion campaigb for Greenland. Let‘s start with taxing adtech really hard.
4change.bsky.social Stefan Heumann @4change.bsky.social · Dec 17
While the US government is escalating its campaign against EU tech regulation - just a reminder. It's the EU that is being taken advantage off. 120 Billion revenue for #Google #Meta #Amazon only in digitale advertising in Europe. And hardly paying any taxes on it.
January 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
techpolicypress.bsky.social
Google has filed its $32bn acquisition of Wiz for EU clearance. The deal risks killing multi-cloud security and deepening lock-in, testing whether EU competition policy is willing to act, write Hilary Jennings, Claire Lavin, Çağrı Çavuş and Aline Blankertz.
Google’s Wiz Deal Could Become a Trojan Horse in Europe’s Cloud | TechPolicy.Press
Google’s Wiz bid will test whether European competition policy is finally willing to confront the expanding power of Big Tech companies.
buff.ly
January 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
maximilian-henning.bsky.social
The @ec.europa.eu will soon present “a combination of funding and policy measures” to support European open source projects in becoming commercially viable alternatives to proprietary US tech.

Read my article at @euractiv.com:

www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...
Commission wants to commercialise open source for sovereignty | Euractiv
An incoming strategy looks set to target support at European open source projects to scale into commercial alternatives to US tech
www.euractiv.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
janinegibson.ft.com
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
masnick.com
Things are going great on The Everything App with MechaHitler in charge.
January 2, 2026 at 2:05 AM
4change.bsky.social
Super Indikator dass das läuft mit der Digitalisierung.
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...
Dänische Post stellt Briefzustellung ein
Briefmarken waren in Dänemark schon nicht mehr im Angebot, heute endet auch die Zustellung - zumindest über das staatliche Unternehmen Postnord. Das will sich künftig auf Pakete konzentrieren und mont...
www.tagesschau.de
December 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
techpolicypress.bsky.social
Europe’s Digital Markets Act aims to open ecosystems: alternatives to app stores, fair access to OS features, real interoperability. But for many free and open source developers, those promises remain fragile without robust enforcement, write Lucas Lasota, Dario Presutti and Jithendra Palepu.
Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly | TechPolicy.Press
Big Tech restrictions on app stores and operating systems put small developers at risk, write Lucas Lasota, Dario Presutti and Jithendra Palepu.
buff.ly
December 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
alexip718.com
See that cluster on the top left? It's gonna get a whole lot bigger by the end of the week.
hailey.at hailey @hailey.at · Dec 22
a zoomed out view looking at language. might need to pull out all the language specific posts and do individual clustering by language
clusters of posts on bluesky by language. english is the biggest, then japan, brazillian, spanish, french, dutch, and german
December 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
4change.bsky.social
It says everything to understand what this is about.
tokarski.bsky.social Paweł Tokarski @tokarski.bsky.social · Dec 24
Facebook, Instagram, X are simply banned in Russia. No US outrage about free speech there—yet the EU is the target. That contrast says a lot.
tokarski.bsky.social Paweł Tokarski @tokarski.bsky.social · Dec 24
Visa bans may be moderate, but the message isn’t: the US is signaling it feels entitled to challenge EU rules governing digital speech.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
December 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
fsteiner.bsky.social
As I didn't intend to travel to the US, excuse my French: The US administration is

- intentionally spreading fake news and lies about EU laws.
- trying to coerce European states by threatening to reduce military support if it doesn't exclude US companies from EU digital rules.
December 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
rav-ev.bsky.social
Die Angriffe der rechtsradikalen Trump-Administration auf die demokratische Zivilgesellschaft nehmen zu. Jetzt trifft es auch @hateaid.org, die sich für den Schutz digitaler #Menschenrechte engagieren. Wir erwarten, dass die Bundesregierung die Angriffe zurückweist.
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amer...
USA verhängen Einreiseverbote gegen Europäer - Deutsche betroffen
Wegen angeblicher Zensur hat die US-Regierung Sanktionen gegen Gruppen verhängt, die sich gegen Hass im Netz engagieren. Von den Reisebeschränkungen sind auch deutsche Aktivistinnen und ein ehemaliger...
www.tagesschau.de
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
4change.bsky.social
While the US government is escalating its campaign against EU tech regulation - just a reminder. It's the EU that is being taken advantage off. 120 Billion revenue for #Google #Meta #Amazon only in digitale advertising in Europe. And hardly paying any taxes on it.
December 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
4change.bsky.social
Finde es ja toll dass es die Webseite gibt. Aber Kosten für einstelligen Millionenbetrag für diese Beta-Version? einfach-machen.gov.de
December 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
4change.bsky.social
Regierungsarbeit in Deutschland.
fsteiner.bsky.social Falk Steiner @fsteiner.bsky.social · Dec 5
Hab seit heute eine neue Lieblingsformulierung, gleicher Kontext #MPK:

"Durch welche Verwaltungsebene, in welcher Form und in welchem Umfang ist in einem fachlich geordneten Prozess bis zum nächsten Treffen des Bundeskanzlers mit den Regierungschefinnen und -chefs der Länder im Juni 2026 zu klären"
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
coricrider.com
120m is no deterrent to X. Musk will moan in public - in private, he will be doing cartwheels.

Tech compliance theatre won't cut it anymore. Europeans want enforcement with teeth - up to revoking access to the Single Market for the worst actors. And Musk + X are the slop merchants par excellence.
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Dec 5
European Commission issues €120 million fine to Elon Musk's X under the Digital Services Act. "The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark', the lack of transparency of its advertising repository, and the failure to provide access to public data for researchers."
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).
ec.europa.eu
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
mathver.bsky.social
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...
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).
ec.europa.eu
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
klonick.bsky.social
Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
4change.bsky.social
Meine Analyse zum neuen Haushalt des Digitalministeriums für @t3n.de
t3n.de/news/karsten...
Große Worte, kleiner Etat: Wie die Bundesregierung die Digitalisierung ausbremst | t3n
Der Haushalt des neuen Digitalministeriums zeigt: Im Kabinett muss sich Minister Karsten Wildberger hintenanstellen. Eine Analyse des Bundeshaushalts lässt erkennen, wie wenig die Regierung künftig in...
t3n.de
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
mathver.bsky.social
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...
‘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...
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
yvesvenedey.bsky.social
Heute findet in Berlin der französisch-deutsche "Gipfel zur Europäischen Digitalen Souveränität" statt. @torbatschow.de von @agoradigital.bsky.social hat in diesem 🧵aufgeschrieben, wie wir durch offene Plattformen digital souverän werden und wie die Politik dabei helfen könnte. 👇
torbatschow.de Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · Nov 13
Jaja, "Big Tech muss weg", I know. Aber wir brauchen auch Ideen, wie wir Nischen-Plattformen in den Mainstream bekommen. Was kann die Politik tun, um Mastodon, Bluesky und Co Luft zum Atmen zu verschaffen?
Well, be my guest:
--> unser neues Policypaper verlinkt
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Digitale Souveränität durch offene Plattformen - Agora Digitale Transformation
"Scaling what works": Ein digitaler Kommunikationsraum, der Innovation, Sicherheit und demokratische Resilienz gleichermaßen fördert
agoradigital.de
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
mathver.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reposted by Stefan Heumann
henningtillmann.de
"Auf allen vier Plattformen wird die AfD am schnellsten [ausgespielt]. […] Bereits nach durchschnittlich 11–12 Minuten taucht zum Beispiel auf TikTok das erste AfD-bezogene Video auf, während es […] etwa 70 Minuten dauert, bis ein SPD-bezogenes Video vorgeschlagen wird."

www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de
Digitalisiert, politisiert, polarisiert?
Nie zuvor konnten Politiker:innen so unmittelbar in den Alltag von Wähler:innen vordringen. Doch was insbesondere junge Menschen auf den Sozialen Medien über Politik in ihren Feeds sehen, entscheiden Plattform-Algorithmen. Diese sind bislang weitgehend intransparent und unreguliert. Die Studie „Digitalisiert, politisiert, polarisiert?“ zeigt: Videos von Parteien an den politischen Rändern werden von den Empfehlungsalgorithmen bevorzugt, während Beiträge der politischen Mitte seltener in den Feeds erscheinen. Um die Integrität zukünftiger Wahlen zu gewährleisten, braucht es einen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Diskurs über die Rolle von Social-Media-Plattformen in Zeiten digitaler Wahlkämpfe.
www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM