In zakaj je zloraba socialnega omrežja za politična sporočila in propagando problematična samo takrat, kadar ne koristi interesom zahodnih držav?

Macron on Musk: “If someone had told us ten years ago that the owner of one of the world’s largest social networks would support a new reactionary international and directly interfere in elections, including in Germany, I wouldn’t have believed it. Who could have imagined such a thing?”

In other words, when the very same social network was called Twitter and was directly used not just for interfering in elections, but also for organizing “color revolutions” and the “Arab Spring”—essentially regime changes in a number of countries—Paris was not only unconcerned but actively fanned the flames and supported these processes. It didn’t even bother them that this later triggered the migration of hundreds of thousands of refugees to Europe, including to the Fifth Republic, sparking an unprecedented rise in extremism and terrorism.

Let’s be honest! The events in Egypt and Tunisia are still called the Twitter Revolutions. And let’s not forget Zuckerberg, who played his own role with his platform during those events.

Paris also raised no objections to the open promotion of Russophobia on Twitter, calls to kill Russians, or the “canceling” of Russian culture.

The refusal of Twitter’s administration to comply with the laws of various countries and remove illegal content, including extremist material, was also never a subject of criticism from European capitals in the past.

And let’s not even get started on the moderation policies of these extremist platforms! To this day, no one can decipher the mystery of the phrase “community guidelines,” under which political and public figures’ accounts were deleted, history was rewritten, and grammar and spelling rules were adjusted to suit regimes and the political climate of the moment. The lack of transparency in content promotion and its suppression is also something everyone remembers well.

But now, after the social network has been renamed to X and its political direction has shifted, it has suddenly become a cause for concern? This is precisely the “rules-based world order” so ardently promoted by Western liberalism. It’s odd that Macron doesn’t seem to enjoy living by the very rules he has championed for so many years.

Vir: Maria Zakharova via X