(Dec 24): The Trump administration on Tuesday (Dec 23) imposed visa sanctions on former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other people for trying to make US tech companies police political speech on their platforms. That includes Imran Ahmed of the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the UK-based Global Disinformation Index’s Clare Melford, as well as Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of Germany’s HateAid, which flags far-right hate speech online. Breton, in a post on X, said the European law was voted in with broad-based support. An EU official denied that move was about censorship, saying it was focused on transparency. The ideological document attacked European leaders over censorship and suppressing political opposition and was widely interpreted by Europe’s established political parties as the Trump administration offering support to Europe’s far-right, anti-immigrant political parties.

Source: The Edge Markets December 24, 2025 01:40 UTC