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“Since the start of the parliamentary mandate, Meta has met 38 times with far-right MEPs”

Hmmmm

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Far left EU MEPs complain about what far right are doing. So what else is new in politics?

Do they also complain when they themselves meet with Meta, or is it an issue only when their growing opposition do it?

You know the saying "For my friends everything, for my enemies, the law"?

The fight against “left” and “right” is just a narrative to gin up allegiance with certain groups.

The only relevance to the article is that it indicates which parties have sided with the US administration to fight consumer’s digital rights.

Yeah that was my point, it doesn't matter if it's left or right, because the only ideology Meta et-al speak, is USD, so they will kiss the ring of whoever is in power at the present moment in EU, far left or far right. Same how many of them also kissed the ring of the CCP or Saudi Arabia while flying the pride flag in the west.

They don't really care about those ideologies they preach, they just virtue signal however needed in order to appease the mobs and governments in power so they can be allowed to extract wealth.

> Do they also complain when they themselves meet with Meta, or is it an issue only when their growing opposition do it?

Are you referring to anything specific or you have just emotional urge to defend far right? (PfE in this case).

I'm just pointing out hypocrisy and double standard of politics. The left is no more righteous than the right as they both want the same thing when it comes to social media, see the social media and big tech censorship of the Biden administration[1][2][3], to control the narrative in their favor as control over social media means the difference between winning and losing the next elections.

But of course you are unable to objectively see such non partisan issues, so you can only resort to calling everyone who has a different option than you on the left's actions as "defending" the right wing.

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/aug/27/mark-zucker...

[2] https://itif.org/publications/2025/12/16/political-pressure-...

[3] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-whi...

Is there a list of MEPs who are just right, without the far prefix?

Yes ?

Yes. But if you look into the policies they push, they are all progressive for some reason.

Nonsense since the 2024 European Parliament that has a big far-right wing. The EPP has already broken down a lot of progressive green policies with help of the far right [1], the "cordon sanitaire" is now broken.

https://www.politico.eu/article/epp-votes-with-far-right-to-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_Europe...

Just as with most parts of the EU (imo both it's strength and it's weakness) there is some complexity and bureaucracy involved with founding out the political spectrum of MEPs. You can research the EU political groups and the political alliances and the corresponding positions on these Wikipedia pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_Europe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_political_alliances

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