Alice Stollmeyer
@stollmeyer.bsky.social
Founder & Executive Director of https://DefendDemocracy.EU/
Busy defending democracy against hybrid & technological threats.
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Busy defending democracy against hybrid & technological threats.
🏆Politico’s #Power40
Support #DefendDemocracy: https://defenddemocracy.eu/get-involved/donate
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Alice Stollmeyer
@stollmeyer.bsky.social
· Apr 16
#HandsOFF our democracy — Defend Democracy
Speech by Defend Democracy at the 'Hands Off Our Democracy' protest in front of the European Commission, urging to them defend our democracy and our Europe.
defenddemocracy.eu
"Since at least 2014 we are watching a coup against democracy unfold. It is the combination of hybrid warfare, rise of the far-right, and tech coup.
How long can Europe hold the line if we don’t take defending our democracy as serious as defending our territory?"
defenddemocracy.eu/handsoff-our...
How long can Europe hold the line if we don’t take defending our democracy as serious as defending our territory?"
defenddemocracy.eu/handsoff-our...
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My wish for 2026 is that Europeans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in their own country as they are about them in the U.S. and that Americans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in the U.S. as Europeans are.
December 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My wish for 2026 is that Europeans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in their own country as they are about them in the U.S. and that Americans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in the U.S. as Europeans are.
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For the last month (arguably year) Ukraine and Europe have been effectively negotiating with someone who claims to be their ally over a deal that they find entirely unacceptable and that the other side of the war has already rejected.
Take a moment to think about the performative insanity of that.
Take a moment to think about the performative insanity of that.
December 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
For the last month (arguably year) Ukraine and Europe have been effectively negotiating with someone who claims to be their ally over a deal that they find entirely unacceptable and that the other side of the war has already rejected.
Take a moment to think about the performative insanity of that.
Take a moment to think about the performative insanity of that.
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this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
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Banning people who study propaganda from the country, while bringing known propagandists back in. Merry Christmas, everybody!
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Banning people who study propaganda from the country, while bringing known propagandists back in. Merry Christmas, everybody!
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We signed this statement in solidarity with European researchers sanctioned by the U.S.
"All those who defend democracy and freedom need to stand together, and we the undersigned stand with those wrongfully sanctioned here."
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
alliance4europe.eu/supporting-d...
"All those who defend democracy and freedom need to stand together, and we the undersigned stand with those wrongfully sanctioned here."
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
alliance4europe.eu/supporting-d...
December 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
We signed this statement in solidarity with European researchers sanctioned by the U.S.
"All those who defend democracy and freedom need to stand together, and we the undersigned stand with those wrongfully sanctioned here."
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
alliance4europe.eu/supporting-d...
"All those who defend democracy and freedom need to stand together, and we the undersigned stand with those wrongfully sanctioned here."
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
alliance4europe.eu/supporting-d...
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Generative AI today is like asbestos yesterday. We greedily put it everywhere. Tomorrow, we will devote crazy amounts of money and endless efforts to depollute the information space.
AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations
The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board
By Miles Klee […]
The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board
By Miles Klee […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Generative AI today is like asbestos yesterday. We greedily put it everywhere. Tomorrow, we will devote crazy amounts of money and endless efforts to depollute the information space.
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trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful:
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful:
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
Statement EU Commission on U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals:
"The EU is an open, rules-based single market, with the sovereign right to regulate economic activity in line with our democratic values and international commitments."
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
"The EU is an open, rules-based single market, with the sovereign right to regulate economic activity in line with our democratic values and international commitments."
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
December 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Statement EU Commission on U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals:
"The EU is an open, rules-based single market, with the sovereign right to regulate economic activity in line with our democratic values and international commitments."
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
"The EU is an open, rules-based single market, with the sovereign right to regulate economic activity in line with our democratic values and international commitments."
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Europe’s Trump strategy is a self-defeating trap:
By giving in to Trump on defence, trade, and democratic values, Europe has bolstered the far-right forces that want to see a weaker EU.
The way out: restore EU's agency where we still can.
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
By giving in to Trump on defence, trade, and democratic values, Europe has bolstered the far-right forces that want to see a weaker EU.
The way out: restore EU's agency where we still can.
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How Europe Lost
Can the continent escape its Trump trap?
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Europe’s Trump strategy is a self-defeating trap:
By giving in to Trump on defence, trade, and democratic values, Europe has bolstered the far-right forces that want to see a weaker EU.
The way out: restore EU's agency where we still can.
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
By giving in to Trump on defence, trade, and democratic values, Europe has bolstered the far-right forces that want to see a weaker EU.
The way out: restore EU's agency where we still can.
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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This is the real cancel culture.
Using the full force of the government to punish perceived enemies, aid their billionaire tech cronies, and protect pedophiles, neo-Nazis, and other extremist, antisemitic hate groups.
THIS is the threat to our rights and freedoms.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
Using the full force of the government to punish perceived enemies, aid their billionaire tech cronies, and protect pedophiles, neo-Nazis, and other extremist, antisemitic hate groups.
THIS is the threat to our rights and freedoms.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is the real cancel culture.
Using the full force of the government to punish perceived enemies, aid their billionaire tech cronies, and protect pedophiles, neo-Nazis, and other extremist, antisemitic hate groups.
THIS is the threat to our rights and freedoms.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
Using the full force of the government to punish perceived enemies, aid their billionaire tech cronies, and protect pedophiles, neo-Nazis, and other extremist, antisemitic hate groups.
THIS is the threat to our rights and freedoms.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
High time for the EU to finally start using its ‘trade bazooka’: the Anti-Coercion Instrument.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
US issues sanctions / visa bans on several EU (former) officials. Amazing stuff, check out the language used. But by all means let us run our governments & vital services on US cloud providers! (let us NOT, to be clear).
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
High time for the EU to finally start using its ‘trade bazooka’: the Anti-Coercion Instrument.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
The West’s Last Chance
How to Build a New Global Order Before It’s Too Late
by Alexander Stubb, President of Finland
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How to Build a New Global Order Before It’s Too Late
by Alexander Stubb, President of Finland
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The West’s Last Chance
How to build a new global order before it’s too late.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The West’s Last Chance
How to Build a New Global Order Before It’s Too Late
by Alexander Stubb, President of Finland
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How to Build a New Global Order Before It’s Too Late
by Alexander Stubb, President of Finland
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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"The emergence of Witkoff as envoy to the Kremlin is partly a story of Putin maneuvering to nudge aside America’s diplomats...
"This month, Witkoff concluded his 6th trip to Russia, talking with Putin for five hours through midnight. Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine..."
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
"This month, Witkoff concluded his 6th trip to Russia, talking with Putin for five hours through midnight. Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine..."
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
How Putin Got His Preferred U.S. Envoy: Come Alone, No CIA
The Kremlin fueled the rise of Trump’s friend Steve Witkoff with a prisoner release, sidelining career diplomats.
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"The emergence of Witkoff as envoy to the Kremlin is partly a story of Putin maneuvering to nudge aside America’s diplomats...
"This month, Witkoff concluded his 6th trip to Russia, talking with Putin for five hours through midnight. Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine..."
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
"This month, Witkoff concluded his 6th trip to Russia, talking with Putin for five hours through midnight. Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine..."
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
European leaders tell Trump to respect territorial integrity and sovereignty, as agreed by international law.
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
We continue to stand in solidarity with Denmark and Greenland.
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Any changes to that status are for Greenlanders and Danes alone to decide. (1/2)
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Any changes to that status are for Greenlanders and Danes alone to decide. (1/2)
December 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
European leaders tell Trump to respect territorial integrity and sovereignty, as agreed by international law.
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
We zitten in een digitale noodsituatie, wanneer nemen we die eens serieus?
De macht van Amerikaanse Big Tech in combinatie met de 'veiligheidsstrategie' van het Trump regime vraagt om een andere, strategische kijk op technologie.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
De macht van Amerikaanse Big Tech in combinatie met de 'veiligheidsstrategie' van het Trump regime vraagt om een andere, strategische kijk op technologie.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
Opinie: We zitten in een digitale noodsituatie, wanneer nemen we die eens serieus?
Dat Amerikaanse bigtechbedrijven veel te dominant zijn, wisten we al langer. Maar in combinatie met de nieuwe veiligheidsstrategie van de VS bevinden we ons in niets minder dan een noodsituatie. Dit v...
www.volkskrant.nl
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
We zitten in een digitale noodsituatie, wanneer nemen we die eens serieus?
De macht van Amerikaanse Big Tech in combinatie met de 'veiligheidsstrategie' van het Trump regime vraagt om een andere, strategische kijk op technologie.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
De macht van Amerikaanse Big Tech in combinatie met de 'veiligheidsstrategie' van het Trump regime vraagt om een andere, strategische kijk op technologie.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
Happy #WinterSolstice — towards more light! 🌞
May your every day grow brighter hereafter 💛🌻😎
www.bustle.com/life/what-do...
May your every day grow brighter hereafter 💛🌻😎
www.bustle.com/life/what-do...
December 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Happy #WinterSolstice — towards more light! 🌞
May your every day grow brighter hereafter 💛🌻😎
www.bustle.com/life/what-do...
May your every day grow brighter hereafter 💛🌻😎
www.bustle.com/life/what-do...
Orbán says he’s unsure of reality 🤔
#DefendDemocracy
#StandWithUkraine
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
#DefendDemocracy
#StandWithUkraine
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
Orbán says unsure who started Russia-Ukraine war
The Hungarian leader has opted out of an EU agreement to borrow €90 billion to aid Kyiv.
www.politico.eu
December 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Orbán says he’s unsure of reality 🤔
#DefendDemocracy
#StandWithUkraine
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
#DefendDemocracy
#StandWithUkraine
#HandsOffOurEU
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
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U.S intelligence report.
So correct, so obvious, and still beyond the comprehension of the U.S. own government.
So correct, so obvious, and still beyond the comprehension of the U.S. own government.
December 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
U.S intelligence report.
So correct, so obvious, and still beyond the comprehension of the U.S. own government.
So correct, so obvious, and still beyond the comprehension of the U.S. own government.
This
Always remember kids, the best people to listen to about what Kremlin will do if you seize our assets to help Ukraine defend itself are the people who said we wouldn't even invade them in the first place.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
December 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This
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Why Europe needs a security update: the era of hybrid warfare.
"When updating security assets, we must not only invest in hardware and software but also in ‘wetware’."
My latest:
defenddemocracy.eu/europe-secur...
"When updating security assets, we must not only invest in hardware and software but also in ‘wetware’."
My latest:
defenddemocracy.eu/europe-secur...
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Why Europe needs a security update: the era of hybrid warfare.
"When updating security assets, we must not only invest in hardware and software but also in ‘wetware’."
My latest:
defenddemocracy.eu/europe-secur...
"When updating security assets, we must not only invest in hardware and software but also in ‘wetware’."
My latest:
defenddemocracy.eu/europe-secur...
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
Another message particularly from the CoE meeting in London was that some countries/speakers went way beyond this "grey zone" talk to say that Russia is in open hybrid warfare against our democracies, using all the tools AI facilitates to assault voters and also parliaments. bsky.app/profile/chad...
Really interesting speech today by new MI6 boss Blaise Metreweli, suggesting a tougher more pro-active focus in the world we’re in now, a grey zone “between peace and war”.
More James Bond than it’s been for a while. Action first.
More James Bond than it’s been for a while. Action first.
Speech by Blaise Metreweli, Chief of SIS, 15 December 2025
Blaise Metreweli, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service on how SIS is keeping the UK safe in a world where the rules of conflict are being rewritten.
www.gov.uk
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Another message particularly from the CoE meeting in London was that some countries/speakers went way beyond this "grey zone" talk to say that Russia is in open hybrid warfare against our democracies, using all the tools AI facilitates to assault voters and also parliaments. bsky.app/profile/chad...
If any doubt remained, it is time to put it to rest:
Trump is behaving in ways that consistently benefit Moscow.
The real question is why.
“Trump has walked into every trap.”
Trump is behaving in ways that consistently benefit Moscow.
The real question is why.
“Trump has walked into every trap.”
“the mind meld between businessman-turned-president Donald Trump and Russian propagandists may be the most successful covert influence effort since the Churchill government’s secret campaign to draw Franklin Roosevelt into World War II.”
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
A tempting mark—why is Trump behaving in ways that benefit Moscow?
Moscow appears to have used these vulnerabilities to influence Donald Trump, and, unfortunately, has done so with considerable success
tomorrowsaffairs.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
If any doubt remained, it is time to put it to rest:
Trump is behaving in ways that consistently benefit Moscow.
The real question is why.
“Trump has walked into every trap.”
Trump is behaving in ways that consistently benefit Moscow.
The real question is why.
“Trump has walked into every trap.”
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"EU can't compete with US tech ON THEIR TERMS."
Weakening digital regulation in EU will NOT create a level playing field, @ec.europa.eu. It will just allow US tech to sweep European tech off the field.
Weakening digital regulation in EU will NOT create a level playing field, @ec.europa.eu. It will just allow US tech to sweep European tech off the field.
#Regulation4Resilience: connect the dots between tech regulation & security!
"Digital platforms are used for hybrid campaigns."
"EU can't compete with US tech ON THEIR TERMS."
"Post-reality US is what happens when tech is unregulated."
"Ireland is a Trojan Horse."
"Digital Omnibus is sabotage."
"Digital platforms are used for hybrid campaigns."
"EU can't compete with US tech ON THEIR TERMS."
"Post-reality US is what happens when tech is unregulated."
"Ireland is a Trojan Horse."
"Digital Omnibus is sabotage."
December 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"EU can't compete with US tech ON THEIR TERMS."
Weakening digital regulation in EU will NOT create a level playing field, @ec.europa.eu. It will just allow US tech to sweep European tech off the field.
Weakening digital regulation in EU will NOT create a level playing field, @ec.europa.eu. It will just allow US tech to sweep European tech off the field.
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
Russia will not escape the bill for the homes, schools, and hospitals it has destroyed.
Today in The Hague, we take a major step toward accountability by establishing a commission to address claims for Russian war damages.
The EU supports its work, including with an initial €1 million contribution
Today in The Hague, we take a major step toward accountability by establishing a commission to address claims for Russian war damages.
The EU supports its work, including with an initial €1 million contribution
December 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Russia will not escape the bill for the homes, schools, and hospitals it has destroyed.
Today in The Hague, we take a major step toward accountability by establishing a commission to address claims for Russian war damages.
The EU supports its work, including with an initial €1 million contribution
Today in The Hague, we take a major step toward accountability by establishing a commission to address claims for Russian war damages.
The EU supports its work, including with an initial €1 million contribution
This week, Europe must choose:
Whether the EU remains a geopolitical object, or chooses to become a subject that shapes its own future.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
#EUCO #EUpol
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
www.iss.europa.eu/publications...
Whether the EU remains a geopolitical object, or chooses to become a subject that shapes its own future.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
#EUCO #EUpol
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
www.iss.europa.eu/publications...
The cost of inaction: Why passivity is no longer an option for the European Union
Geopolitics: Russians and Americans are making plans, to which Europeans then react with panic – that's how it usually goes these days, observes Steven Everts . This week's EU summit is a crucial mome...
www.iss.europa.eu
December 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This week, Europe must choose:
Whether the EU remains a geopolitical object, or chooses to become a subject that shapes its own future.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
#EUCO #EUpol
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
www.iss.europa.eu/publications...
Whether the EU remains a geopolitical object, or chooses to become a subject that shapes its own future.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
#EUCO #EUpol
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
www.iss.europa.eu/publications...