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X to be investigated for allegedly breaking EU laws on hate speech and fake news (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] espentan@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago

It feels like it's always the EU picking up the ball on these things. Aren't there mechanisms in place to monitor these things in the US, or is it legislation (or lack of it) that prevents the government from going after such things?

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In the US, you always have to consider the benefits and risks to an elected official. Republicans would get nothing out of putting their new golden boy under a magnifier, but I'm certain that if a democrat tried it, they'd get slandered to hell and back.

The EU probably has no such concern. I don't know how the EC's members are picked, but partisanship is probably not as huge a factor. Eventually some EC members were bound to grow a backbone.