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French president dials up pressure on EU over age verification.

French government also wants to ban websites selling knives to children.

Parent company of Pornhub, Redtube and YouPorn suspended the sites for French users on Wednesday.

Porn industry giant protests Paris’ measures to verify the age of users.

Efforts to protect kids online are gaining traction in Europe.

He called out Europe over speech crackdowns and pressures on U.S. tech platforms.

Musk’s platform is challenging the government order to block Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s account.

As digital enforcement kicks in, a high-profile investigation into Elon Musk’s X is still open.

European Commissioner Henna Virkkunen is facing growing pressure to wrap up investigations into TikTok, Meta and X.

While Washington pressures the U.K. to soften its online safety laws, regulator Ofcom has to soldier on.

A new law requires porn sites to check the age of users in France.

Digital services could be Washington’s Achilles heel but European officials are conflicted over how to strike it.

The adult content platform was fined for failing to provide accurate information about its age assurance measures.

Bucharest is at the center of a heated debate over social media policing.

Targeting Big Tech could be among the EU’s options to hit Washington where it hurts, Belgium’s foreign minister says.

ChatGPT’s tendency to “hallucinate” and spit out made-up information about people has triggered a second complaint from Austrian privacy group Noyb.

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Tech regulation could be the next point of contention between the new U.S. administration and the EU.

The U.K. hopes teaming up with the U.S. on advanced tech might help avoid the president’s tariff wrath.

Henna Virkkunen tells U.S. member of Congress that the EU is ‘deeply committed’ to protecting free speech.

Federal Communications Commission chair warns that the EU’s Digital Services Act threatens censorship that is “incompatible” with U.S. free speech.

Their meeting didn’t quite go as hoped, with U.S. politicians railing against EU “censorship regimes.”

Creating criminal content with AI is a growing problem for law enforcement.

Elon Musk’s X has challenged a German court decision that instructed the platform to share data with researchers, the court confirmed to POLITICO. In an urgent injunction, …