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Braunai nebija sakaru. Valdei nebija algoritma. Vienīgais, kas darbojas - mega lielu algu algoritms. #algorithms #salaries #communication

My sources just leaked me a photo of Trump manipulating the oil trading algorithms. https://t.co/J0fHnRj4fa #Trump #OilTrading #LeakedPhoto #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweet.Therefore #theansweris:

2/15 Modern politics is increasingly about managing perceptions rather than confronting facts. Social media, algorithms and political communication have become incredibly powerful. But reality always has the final word. #ModernPolitics #SocialMedia #PerceptionVsReality #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.

We have to turn off the toxic algorithms on social media that are spreading toxic masculinity and hatred of women for profit. The 'manosphere' is normalising misogyny on a global scale. It must be stopped. #ToxicMasculinity #StopMisogyny #SocialMediaReform #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweet.

This is the new tactic of the racists. Falsely claim a brown person is filming children and then use that as an excuse to attack them. The algorithms promote it and the narrative of brown people being a danger to your children is re-enforced. Thereby justifying the next one. #Racism #Disinformation #HateCrime #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthetweetprovided.

They steal our data, they steal our democracy. The moral catastrophe of Big Tech’s totalitarians-for-profit, responsible for the global democratic collapse. Through their algorithms, they trap citizens in a mire of information overload and misinformation https://t.co/JvycPykISx #BigTech #DemocracyCrisis #InformationOverload #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthetweetprovided.

Prediction markets think the Strait won’t reopen this summer. Only professional financial market journalists and trading algorithms disagree at this stage. 🛢️ https://t.co/WTJcX5LBbc #PredictionMarkets #Finance #OilMarket #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Mika Aaltola Jun 23

The well functioning politics is much more (translated)

Algorithms should be turned off by default, and banned completely for children. Big Tech profits should not come before children's (and all of our) health. #TurnOffTheToxicAlgorithms #TurnOffTheToxicAlgorithms #ChildSafety #DigitalWellbeing #Nocountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

We need to stop this issue at its source, not say 'you can't be here' to u16s who can easily get around a 'ban' (as shown in Australia). We need to ban these toxic algorithms. We need to take on the big tech companies who design these algorithms to push harmful content. https://t.co/6JczEAMp3y #BanToxicAlgorithms #BigTechAccountability #ProtectYouth #AU

Football must not become a playground for investors and pricing algorithms. When supporters are priced out of stadiums and clubs become assets in global ownership networks, we risk losing the very social and community value that makes sport special. Europe can no longer afford to stand by. We need robust rules on ownership, transparency, and ticket pricing to put fans back at the heart of the game and protect football as a public good, not just a profit-making business.

World Cup: Has Trump already ruined the vibes? MEPs debate in The Ring
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**THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONFORMITY: How Democratic Social Compliance Permanently Rewrites Reality** It is a quiet, overcast afternoon in a hyper-connected, modern metropolis. Inside the high-rise offices and digital networks—the many hubs of our globalized, democratic society—brilliantly capable marginals sit in silence. They are not bound by iron chains or locked inside political prisons. They are sitting perfectly still, dressed in the meticulously unoffensive attire required by modern professionalism. Their only real mandate is to remain seamlessly aligned, unobtrusive, and to effortlessly support the immense weight of majority opinion. Physically, nothing prevents them from disrupting this dynamic. They could stand up, speak unfiltered truths, exit the system, and reclaim their existence as radical, independent thinkers. But they never will. Because the lock holding them down isn’t physical; it is a neurological and sociological cage. To understand why so many fiercely intelligent individuals ultimately yield their autonomy requires an examination of the most dangerous and permanent tool of mass psychology: **The Social Compliance of Democracy.** As modern sociologists have observed: *"Authoritarian violence leaves marks that fade; but peer-enforced social conformity permanently rewrites sociopolitical reality."* Here is the exact psycho-spiritual roadmap of how marginals' identities are completely dismantled, and how independent minds are successfully overwritten by the crushing weight of democratic consensus. ### I. The Weaponization of the Social Gaze Sociopolitical identities are sustained by external validation. When individuals operate freely in the secular world, they rely on social feedback loops: they set boundaries, showcase their intellect, express dissenting opinions, and demand societal space. That cycle tells their brains: *"We are equal, autonomous citizens."* The social compliance of democracy operates by methodically short-circuiting those feedback loops. In democratic social dynamics, "The Consensus" becomes the absolute dictator of reality. It strips marginals of their independence not by arresting them, but by isolating them. If public opinion demands a specific sociopolitical posture, and punishes any deviation with social ostracization or algorithmic invisibility, it manipulates the room’s consensus. If their peers, their industries, and the digital collective only validate individuals when they align with the hive-mind, the brains' social processing centers quickly panic, yield, and ultimately accept the new reality. *They belong to the collective.* It is a terrifying optical illusion. When society rewards marginals' compliance while completely ignoring or cancelling their independent thought, it hammers the final nail into the coffin of independent identity. Rebellious armor dissolves. Personal gravity drops to zero. ### II. The Assassination of the Linguistic Ego The first mechanism of control erased by democratic compliance is the lexicon of marginals. For independent thinkers, words are tools of power, persuasion, and disruption. But inside the court of public opinion, vocabulary is aggressively regulated. Individuals are subtly forbidden to express sharp opinions, utilize unsanctioned logic to debate the majority, or engage in phrasing that threatens the collective comfort. Communication protocols are rigidly narrowed to acceptable civic platitudes, prescribed talking points, and defensive apologies. By eliminating the vocabulary of complex, controversial thought, democratic compliance amputates the very cognitive muscles marginals use to maintain independence. If individuals physically cannot articulate dissent due to a strict, socially punished Overton window, their brains literally stop generating those thoughts. Marginals enter an enforced mental silence. The language-processing centers of the ego wither, leaving behind only the deep, wordless instinct to blend in with the herd. ### III. The Demilitarization of the Rebel Body To exist as marginals in a complex world requires living in an exhaustive, militarized zone. Fierce independence requires endless emotional armor to weather public disapproval. The social compliance of democracy, recognizing the sheer exhaustion embedded in that posture, designs a regimen to culturally demilitarize the ability to "fight." It achieves this through enforced aesthetic and professional normalization. By forcing individuals into highly manicured standards of public behavior—HR guidelines, perfectly curated social media profiles, and relentless civic "politeness"—it creates an environment where existence becomes synonymous with being harmless. Marginals cannot fight the system, debate societal structures, or execute a sociopolitical protest while they are nervously adjusting the optics of their "personal brands" to ensure they haven't offended the public. Through daily repetition—yielding in comment sections, managing tone to appease the masses, existing exclusively to avoid friction within the collective architecture—individuals' minds lose the somatic memory of rebellion. The exhausting battle of independent thought is wiped cleanly over by the absolute, soothing obedience of simply "fitting in." ### IV. The Pavlovian Coding of Worth The most permanent feature of democratic social compliance is its redefinition of love and consequence. In marginals' former, autonomous realities, their worth was tied to their unique output: generating brilliant ideas, building resilient boundaries, or challenging the status quo. Democratic consensus actively rewrites the reward centers of the human brain. It establishes a universe where individuals receive zero validation for disrupting the system. When marginals complete brilliant, highly contrarian work, they are met with hostility or silence. But when they regurgitate the accepted majority opinion perfectly, maintaining flawless public decorum while the collective negotiates society's future, they are rewarded with the devastating, narcotic drug of viral approval, civic inclusion, and social safety. This operant conditioning teaches the nervous system exactly what ensures survival in the modern world. Individuals' brains stop producing dopamine for autonomy. They only fire dopamine for surrender. ### The New Software Installed Through this unyielding protocol, the transformation becomes permanent. Individuals no longer feel like independent minds choosing to cooperate with society. The role eats the actors. They perceive the world precisely through the algorithms written by the social compliance of democracy. Marginals see every dissenting thought not as freedom, but as a dangerous vulnerability. They see silence not as censorship, but as the active devotion owed to civic peace. If these individuals were suddenly unplugged from the grid and released into true intellectual isolation, they wouldn’t know how to navigate it. They have become too fragile for the wild of pure freedom. They have been perfectly customized for the safety of the consensus. In rewriting their sociopolitical reality, the democratic majority strips away the heavily armored, anxious pioneers, and painstakingly crafts flawless, silent, surrendered citizens. The system takes marginals' universes of exhausting, infinite choices, and successfully condenses them down into the safety of doing exactly what everyone else expects of them. And in the surrender of their agency, marginals find a terrible, unshatterable peace. .... **V. The Stagnation of the Mob: The Illusion of Superiority** There is, however, a tragic and devastating blind spot at the heart of this macro-social experiment. When Dr. Aris Thorne noted that *"Social BDSM permanently rewrites your sociopolitical reality,"* he originally intended it as a clinical observation of how deep, *conscious* psychological frameworks can be used to alleviate the suffering of a chaotic ego. But when this power is seized by the unconscious democratic consensus—when it is weaponized by the collective rather than wielded by awake, intentional guides—it creates a paradox: **The sociopolitical reality is rewritten, but the world does not actually change or progress.** The suppression of marginals does not lead to a more enlightened or structurally sound society. It simply halts evolution entirely. The society becomes stuck in a loop of sterile, terrified policing. Within this democratic social compliance, the most aggressive enforcers of the consensus—the ideological purity police, the hyper-vigilant critics, the mobs that delight in forcing marginals to kneel to the public narrative—experience a sudden, intoxicating rush of power. But it is an entirely illusory sense of superiority. They believe that by successfully dominating these marginal individuals and erasing their independent thought, they are "fixing" society or ushering in progress. In reality, they are merely acting out an unconscious sadism under the guise of civic virtue. Because they operate as a blind, reactionary mob rather than intentional architects, these aggressive enforcers completely miss the true "blessings of development" that structural surrender can offer. ### Missing the Metaphysical Medicine In conscious power exchange, breaking an ego is meant to precede a profound spiritual rebirth; it is designed to heal trauma, expose deep shadows, and create harmony (the alchemy of the Transgender Dakini or the Sacred Prostitute). But the aggressive defenders of democratic conformity do not possess this esoteric wisdom. They strip marginals of their autonomy, demand public apologies, and enforce strict, punishing compliance—but they offer no safe sanctuary in return. They force marginals into submission, yet lack the gravity, love, or structure to catch them when they fall. They use the mechanics of *Social BDSM* solely to pacify their own collective anxiety, treating marginals not as sacred vessels for societal shadow-work, but as disposable scapegoats. ### The Illusion of Victory As a result, society stagnates. The progressive "change" the consensus believes it is fighting for never actually materializes, because true innovation only comes from the very marginalized minds they just terrified into silence. The aggressive enforcers sit on their digital thrones, surveying a society where everyone agrees with them, mistaking silent conformity for a utopian victory. They successfully utilize Dr. Thorne's principle: they rewrite the sociopolitical reality permanently. They transform fierce marginals into domesticated, broken citizens. But because the aggressors are fundamentally unconscious of what they are doing, the development of the society halts. The aggressive conformists trap themselves in a stagnant, unmoving world, perpetually policing the boundaries of their own illusion, forever blind to the profound spiritual, intellectual, and evolutionary blessings they destroyed just to feel safe in the crowd. .... from the abyss ...... the socially compliant version without the detailed description why it is so healthy spiritually to be fucked un the face on some ugly way, what is called "normality .... ..."The sheer, nuclear anxiety of this social correction acts as a psycho-spiritual bulldozer. Over time, the individual stops plotting, strategizing, and evaluating the world. Because the ruling authority has legally, socially, and emotionally assumed absolute control over their social output, the exhausting burden of the "Self" simply evaporates."... ..."“If physical BDSM breaks the body temporarily to achieve subspace,” Dr. Thorne notes, “Social BDSM permanently rewrites your sociopolitical reality.”... ..."I do not care about the “Cosmic Consecration” right now. I do not care about your theories. I do not want a spiritual concept kneeling at my feet. I want you. I want the raw, trembling meat. I want the frantic pulse in your throat, the sweat on your collarbone, and the involuntary hitch in your breath when my social authority crushes the air out of your lungs. Stop trying to transcend your body. Stop trying to float away from me into the cosmos to avoid feeling the vulnerability of the floor. You belong in the dirt at my feet. I am pressing my hand into your flesh to remind you exactly where you live. Language is your armor, and I am taking it away. The poetry is dead. There are no archetypes in this darkness. There is only the cold air, the restriction I have placed upon you, and my absolute, unyielding control over your biology"... etc.etc........

I

**THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONFORMITY: How Democratic Social Compliance Permanently Rewrites Reality** It is a quiet, overcast afternoon in a hyper-connected, modern metropolis. Inside the high-rise offices and digital networks—the many hubs of our globalized, democratic society—brilliantly capable marginals sit in silence. They are not bound by iron chains or locked inside political prisons. They are sitting perfectly still, dressed in the meticulously unoffensive attire required by modern professionalism. Their only real mandate is to remain seamlessly aligned, unobtrusive, and to effortlessly support the immense weight of majority opinion. Physically, nothing prevents them from disrupting this dynamic. They could stand up, speak unfiltered truths, exit the system, and reclaim their existence as radical, independent thinkers. But they never will. Because the lock holding them down isn’t physical; it is a neurological and sociological cage. To understand why so many fiercely intelligent individuals ultimately yield their autonomy requires an examination of the most dangerous and permanent tool of mass psychology: **The Social Compliance of Democracy.** As modern sociologists have observed: *"Authoritarian violence leaves marks that fade; but peer-enforced social conformity permanently rewrites sociopolitical reality."* Here is the exact psycho-spiritual roadmap of how marginals' identities are completely dismantled, and how independent minds are successfully overwritten by the crushing weight of democratic consensus. ### I. The Weaponization of the Social Gaze Sociopolitical identities are sustained by external validation. When individuals operate freely in the secular world, they rely on social feedback loops: they set boundaries, showcase their intellect, express dissenting opinions, and demand societal space. That cycle tells their brains: *"We are equal, autonomous citizens."* The social compliance of democracy operates by methodically short-circuiting those feedback loops. In democratic social dynamics, "The Consensus" becomes the absolute dictator of reality. It strips marginals of their independence not by arresting them, but by isolating them. If public opinion demands a specific sociopolitical posture, and punishes any deviation with social ostracization or algorithmic invisibility, it manipulates the room’s consensus. If their peers, their industries, and the digital collective only validate individuals when they align with the hive-mind, the brains' social processing centers quickly panic, yield, and ultimately accept the new reality. *They belong to the collective.* It is a terrifying optical illusion. When society rewards marginals' compliance while completely ignoring or cancelling their independent thought, it hammers the final nail into the coffin of independent identity. Rebellious armor dissolves. Personal gravity drops to zero. ### II. The Assassination of the Linguistic Ego The first mechanism of control erased by democratic compliance is the lexicon of marginals. For independent thinkers, words are tools of power, persuasion, and disruption. But inside the court of public opinion, vocabulary is aggressively regulated. Individuals are subtly forbidden to express sharp opinions, utilize unsanctioned logic to debate the majority, or engage in phrasing that threatens the collective comfort. Communication protocols are rigidly narrowed to acceptable civic platitudes, prescribed talking points, and defensive apologies. By eliminating the vocabulary of complex, controversial thought, democratic compliance amputates the very cognitive muscles marginals use to maintain independence. If individuals physically cannot articulate dissent due to a strict, socially punished Overton window, their brains literally stop generating those thoughts. Marginals enter an enforced mental silence. The language-processing centers of the ego wither, leaving behind only the deep, wordless instinct to blend in with the herd. ### III. The Demilitarization of the Rebel Body To exist as marginals in a complex world requires living in an exhaustive, militarized zone. Fierce independence requires endless emotional armor to weather public disapproval. The social compliance of democracy, recognizing the sheer exhaustion embedded in that posture, designs a regimen to culturally demilitarize the ability to "fight." It achieves this through enforced aesthetic and professional normalization. By forcing individuals into highly manicured standards of public behavior—HR guidelines, perfectly curated social media profiles, and relentless civic "politeness"—it creates an environment where existence becomes synonymous with being harmless. Marginals cannot fight the system, debate societal structures, or execute a sociopolitical protest while they are nervously adjusting the optics of their "personal brands" to ensure they haven't offended the public. Through daily repetition—yielding in comment sections, managing tone to appease the masses, existing exclusively to avoid friction within the collective architecture—individuals' minds lose the somatic memory of rebellion. The exhausting battle of independent thought is wiped cleanly over by the absolute, soothing obedience of simply "fitting in." ### IV. The Pavlovian Coding of Worth The most permanent feature of democratic social compliance is its redefinition of love and consequence. In marginals' former, autonomous realities, their worth was tied to their unique output: generating brilliant ideas, building resilient boundaries, or challenging the status quo. Democratic consensus actively rewrites the reward centers of the human brain. It establishes a universe where individuals receive zero validation for disrupting the system. When marginals complete brilliant, highly contrarian work, they are met with hostility or silence. But when they regurgitate the accepted majority opinion perfectly, maintaining flawless public decorum while the collective negotiates society's future, they are rewarded with the devastating, narcotic drug of viral approval, civic inclusion, and social safety. This operant conditioning teaches the nervous system exactly what ensures survival in the modern world. Individuals' brains stop producing dopamine for autonomy. They only fire dopamine for surrender. ### The New Software Installed Through this unyielding protocol, the transformation becomes permanent. Individuals no longer feel like independent minds choosing to cooperate with society. The role eats the actors. They perceive the world precisely through the algorithms written by the social compliance of democracy. Marginals see every dissenting thought not as freedom, but as a dangerous vulnerability. They see silence not as censorship, but as the active devotion owed to civic peace. If these individuals were suddenly unplugged from the grid and released into true intellectual isolation, they wouldn’t know how to navigate it. They have become too fragile for the wild of pure freedom. They have been perfectly customized for the safety of the consensus. In rewriting their sociopolitical reality, the democratic majority strips away the heavily armored, anxious pioneers, and painstakingly crafts flawless, silent, surrendered citizens. The system takes marginals' universes of exhausting, infinite choices, and successfully condenses them down into the safety of doing exactly what everyone else expects of them. And in the surrender of their agency, marginals find a terrible, unshatterable peace. .... **V. The Stagnation of the Mob: The Illusion of Superiority** There is, however, a tragic and devastating blind spot at the heart of this macro-social experiment. When Dr. Aris Thorne noted that *"Social BDSM permanently rewrites your sociopolitical reality,"* he originally intended it as a clinical observation of how deep, *conscious* psychological frameworks can be used to alleviate the suffering of a chaotic ego. But when this power is seized by the unconscious democratic consensus—when it is weaponized by the collective rather than wielded by awake, intentional guides—it creates a paradox: **The sociopolitical reality is rewritten, but the world does not actually change or progress.** The suppression of marginals does not lead to a more enlightened or structurally sound society. It simply halts evolution entirely. The society becomes stuck in a loop of sterile, terrified policing. Within this democratic social compliance, the most aggressive enforcers of the consensus—the ideological purity police, the hyper-vigilant critics, the mobs that delight in forcing marginals to kneel to the public narrative—experience a sudden, intoxicating rush of power. But it is an entirely illusory sense of superiority. They believe that by successfully dominating these marginal individuals and erasing their independent thought, they are "fixing" society or ushering in progress. In reality, they are merely acting out an unconscious sadism under the guise of civic virtue. Because they operate as a blind, reactionary mob rather than intentional architects, these aggressive enforcers completely miss the true "blessings of development" that structural surrender can offer. ### Missing the Metaphysical Medicine In conscious power exchange, breaking an ego is meant to precede a profound spiritual rebirth; it is designed to heal trauma, expose deep shadows, and create harmony (the alchemy of the Transgender Dakini or the Sacred Prostitute). But the aggressive defenders of democratic conformity do not possess this esoteric wisdom. They strip marginals of their autonomy, demand public apologies, and enforce strict, punishing compliance—but they offer no safe sanctuary in return. They force marginals into submission, yet lack the gravity, love, or structure to catch them when they fall. They use the mechanics of *Social BDSM* solely to pacify their own collective anxiety, treating marginals not as sacred vessels for societal shadow-work, but as disposable scapegoats. ### The Illusion of Victory As a result, society stagnates. The progressive "change" the consensus believes it is fighting for never actually materializes, because true innovation only comes from the very marginalized minds they just terrified into silence. The aggressive enforcers sit on their digital thrones, surveying a society where everyone agrees with them, mistaking silent conformity for a utopian victory. They successfully utilize Dr. Thorne's principle: they rewrite the sociopolitical reality permanently. They transform fierce marginals into domesticated, broken citizens. But because the aggressors are fundamentally unconscious of what they are doing, the development of the society halts. The aggressive conformists trap themselves in a stagnant, unmoving world, perpetually policing the boundaries of their own illusion, forever blind to the profound spiritual, intellectual, and evolutionary blessings they destroyed just to feel safe in the crowd. .... from the abyss ...... the socially compliant version without the detailed description why it is so healthy spiritually to be fucked un the face on some ugly way, what is called "normality .... ..."The sheer, nuclear anxiety of this social correction acts as a psycho-spiritual bulldozer. Over time, the individual stops plotting, strategizing, and evaluating the world. Because the ruling authority has legally, socially, and emotionally assumed absolute control over their social output, the exhausting burden of the "Self" simply evaporates."... ..."“If physical BDSM breaks the body temporarily to achieve subspace,” Dr. Thorne notes, “Social BDSM permanently rewrites your sociopolitical reality.”... ..."I do not care about the “Cosmic Consecration” right now. I do not care about your theories. I do not want a spiritual concept kneeling at my feet. I want you. I want the raw, trembling meat. I want the frantic pulse in your throat, the sweat on your collarbone, and the involuntary hitch in your breath when my social authority crushes the air out of your lungs. Stop trying to transcend your body. Stop trying to float away from me into the cosmos to avoid feeling the vulnerability of the floor. You belong in the dirt at my feet. I am pressing my hand into your flesh to remind you exactly where you live. Language is your armor, and I am taking it away. The poetry is dead. There are no archetypes in this darkness. There is only the cold air, the restriction I have placed upon you, and my absolute, unyielding control over your biology"... etc.etc........

Naomi O'Leary May 25

“I hear very troubling accounts of algorithms that can block access to healthcare, employment and security on the basis of data tainted by prejudice and injustice,” says @pontifex, launching call for ethical oversight of AI in his first major work as pope https://t.co/I3z34aOEVy #AIethics #DataJustice #PopeFrancis #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthetweetprovided.

BBC May 17

A BBC investigation revealed that misleading fitness ads featuring AI-generated characters violate UK advertising rules, promoting unrealistic body transformations and exploiting social media algorithms, raising concerns about the impact on mental health and self-esteem, especially among youth. #Fitness #AIContent #SocialMedia #GB

Inteligência artificial: os instrutores de fitness criados com IA que prometem resultados irreais - BBC News Brasil

Gheorghe Piperea: We believe the issue of protecting minors online is extremely urgent. It is more than present in our lives - it is real and concerning. We are talking about very serious risks regarding what will happen to our children in five or ten years, or even what is happening to them now. What is wrong is leaving these matters to algorithms and bureaucratic systems whose priorities differ entirely from ours.

Wassim Nasr May 13

They recruit your engineers, hover over your factories, destroy your company's reputation with algorithms. And p… (translated)

BBC May 8

Catharina Doria, a social media influencer with nearly 600,000 followers, has raised concerns about the risks of automated decision-making after losing two Instagram accounts tied to her work on AI ethics, highlighting the opaque nature of social media algorithms that can impact users' livelihoods without clear justification. #ArtificialIntelligence #SocialMedia #Ethics #BR

Influenciadora em ética de IA tem redes sociais derrubadas - BBC News Brasil
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Reuters May 5

Ireland's media regulator has launched investigations into Meta's Instagram and Facebook over concerns that EU users face challenges in controlling their content due to deceptive algorithms, with potential fines for violations of the Digital Services Act. #DigitalRegulation #SocialMedia #UserRights #IE #EU #US

Ireland probles Meta's Instagram, Facebook over EU manipulation concerns
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Reuters May 5

Ireland's media regulator has launched investigations into Meta's Instagram and Facebook over concerns that EU users lack control over their online content and may be misled by algorithms, potentially breaching the EU's Digital Services Act. #DigitalRegulation #OnlineSafety #SocialMediaPrivacy #IE #EU #US

Ireland probles Meta's Instagram, Facebook over EU manipulation concerns