Trump administration launches pressure campaign against EU Digital Services Act
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2025-05-19T14:09:00
The Trump administration is preparing to ask the European Union to alter or water down its rules on content moderation on social media, claiming that they hurt the competitiveness of American technology companies.
The initiative, being led by the U.S. State Department, has begun with an assessment of the laws’ impact on free speech, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal. The goal is to push back against EU rules that dictate how American tech giants like Google, Meta, Apple, and Amazon should moderate user content on their websites.
The U.S. “is committed to shutting down the global censorship-industrial complex,” a State Department communication said, The Journal reported.
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