Can Europe stand up to the US big-tech juggernaut?
The repeated interventions of Elon Musk, the boss of social network X (as well as Tesla and SpaceX), are raising hard questions. Can Europe’s public debate and elections ever be free of the scourge of foreign disinformation? And now Musk has been joined by TikTok, the Chinese-owned platform, and Meta, the company controlled by Mark…