MAGA’s mission to meddle in European politics should terrify Starmer, Macron and Merz. Will any of them fight back?
Donald Trump has launched a crusade to convert European politics to his cause, mobilizing the full force of American diplomacy to promote “patriotic” parties, stamp on migration, destroy “censorship” and save “civilization” from decay.
The question is whether Europe’s embattled centrists have the power, or the will, to stop him. In its newly released National Security Strategy document, the White House set out for the first time in a comprehensive form its approach to the geopolitical challenges facing the U.S. and the world.
While bringing peace to Ukraine gets a mention, when it comes to Europe, America’s official stance is now that its security depends on shifting the continent’s politics decisively to the right.
European comission has their own mastodon server at ec.social-network.europa.eu. Why in the fuck they’re still advertising/doing anything on twitter?
Because a lot more people are still using Twitter than have started using mastodon
If all European politicians moved to mastodon, they would drag a bunch of journalists and media behind them. On Twitter, only four insignificant influencers and far-right spammers would remain; all serious debate would shift immediately.
And one party might remain on twitter and have a tremendous advantage in reach over all others.
That kind of irrational fear of being left out is what keeps Musk as one of the richest and most powerful men in the world.
I assure you, this is not an irrational fear. A year or so ago, the only German political party with a major presence on tik tok was the afd, a far-right to extremist party.
They still dominate an enormous share of political discourse on this platform. Arguably thanks to help from the platforms creator, but also because they were uncontested. The platform most teenagers use.
If you think the presence of other groups would have changed that, you don’t understand how the algorithms of commercial social networks work. Twitter is actively promoting far-right content, and believing that occupying that space will change it is absurd; it only legitimizes it through institutional accounts.
It’s as if in the 1930s the communist party had actively participated in radio stations or newspapers affiliated with the Nazi party.
The EC absolutely has the marketing budget to change that though.
By getting the word out in X about their mastodon link?
Or having the members, the respective heads of states, on whose words the entire European and actually world press hangs, promote and politicise it.
Because they can control the narrative much better on X