24 Jan, 2025 @ 11:51
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NOWHERE TO HIDE: Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez wants to end online anonymity and put Zuckerberg and Musk in the firing line

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SPANISH PM Pedro Sanchez has launched a blistering attack on social media.

Speaking at the Davos summit, the leader of the PSOE socialist party demanded the EU crack down on tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, accusing them of poisoning democracy for profit.

Dubbing his plan as a way to ‘make social media great again’, one of his key demands is to stop people ‘hiding behind screens’ by making every social media register their real identity with the EU.

While users could still have a nickname, law enforcement would be able to trace them to a real person.

Tech giants would also be forced to reveal the secrets behind the algorithms behind their addictive apps in an effort to avoid ‘hidden manipulation’.

And bosses like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk could face the music personally if their platforms break the rules.

The Spanish PM didn’t pull any punches, accusing tech billionaires of trying to overthrow democracy itself. “They’re not satisfied with nearly total economic power,” he said. “Now they want political power too!”

But not everyone agreed with Sanchez. Argentina’s new President Javier Milei slammed the plan as socialist censorship, saying: “I’m not surprised Sánchez wants to silence those who think differently.”

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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