{"id":5049,"date":"2026-01-04T18:28:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:28:38","slug":"the-eu-laws-reining-in-big-tech-and-fighting-disinformation-but-angering-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/04\/the-eu-laws-reining-in-big-tech-and-fighting-disinformation-but-angering-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU laws reining in big tech and fighting disinformation \u2013 but angering Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The European Union\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA) have become major points of contention between Brussels and the Trump administration. These laws, designed to curb the power of Big Tech and police online content, are viewed by the U.S. government as tools for censoring American viewpoints and unfairly targeting U.S. companies. In response, the U.S. has implemented travel bans on European officials involved in enforcing these regulations, escalating a trade and diplomatic rift. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: December 24, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20251224-the-european-laws-curbing-big-tech-and-irking-trump\">france24.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA) have become major points of contention between Brussels and the Trump administration. These laws, designed to curb the power of Big Tech and police online content, are viewed by the U.S. government as tools for censoring American viewpoints and unfairly targeting U.S. companies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unregulated-digitalization-of-political-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5135,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}