Inside the Big Tech lobbying machine aiming to halt social media bans
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In November, Kim van Sparrentak, a Green Party lawmaker from the Netherlands, grabbed her headphones and headed for the exit of the European Parliament building. Moments earlier, she had participated in a heated debate over whether to bar young teenagers in Europe from social media platforms.
Then a statement on a podcast she was listening to stopped her cold.
It was a message from Meta opposing the social media ban proposal, Ms. van Sparrentak said in an interview. That she was hearing it on a favorite podcast threw her. “I thought there was something wrong with me,” she added.
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