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So #Spain 🇪🇸 is spearheading ID Verification for the #EuropeanUnion 🇪🇺.

👉🏾 Spain 🇪🇸 to Ban Social Media for under 16’s, PM Pedro Sanchez Announces New Digital Safety Laws https://youtu.be/zcXhL5v_Dak

Here is an article for those curious about what the Prime Minister of Spain 🇪🇸 said.

👉🏾 Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/spain-ban-social-media-access-092430413.html

Five other nations in #Europe will allegedly join Spain 🇪🇸 in implementing this ban.

How would this affect the #Fediverse overall‽

Yahoo News

Spain weighs social media ban for under-16s as European nations harden stance

Spain plans to ban social media for those aged under 16 and will create a law to hold social media executives personally responsible for hate speech on their platforms, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday. Spain joins a host of countries such as Britain and France considering tougher stances on social media, after Australia in December became the first country in the world to prohibit access ‌to such platforms for children under 16. "Our children are exposed to a space they were ‌never meant to navigate alone... We will no longer accept that," Sanchez said as he addressed the World Governments Summit in Dubai, calling on other European countries to implement similar measures.

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Marco Hackney

@marcohackney@todon.eu · 3 weeks ago

#EuropeanUnion #EU
#YesBut

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Marco Hackney

@marcohackney@todon.eu · 3 weeks ago

#EuropeanUnion #EU
#YesBut

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Ukraine War Bulletins and News

@SocraticEthics@mastodon.online · 4 weeks ago

⚠️🇺🇦Death of seahorses reported on Black Sea coast in Odesa possibly due to Russia’s ecocide oil contamination (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-other_news/4085317-death-of-seahorses-reported-on-black-sea-coast-in-odesa.html #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #ICC #France #Italy #Cyprus #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #Austria
#RussiaIsATerroristState

Death of seahorses reported on Black Sea coast in Odesa

Along the Black Sea coast in Odesa, sea horses have been found washed up on the shore at densities of 2-92 specimens per square meter of coastline. The number of dead individuals gradually decreases in the direction of the 16th station of the Big Fountain. — Ukrinform.

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@SocraticEthics@mastodon.online · 4 weeks ago

Death of seahorses reported on Black Sea coast in Odesa

Leave X - Protect Democracy

@leavex@mastodon.social · 4 weeks ago

Here we go! Based on data provided by the Politics project on social media [1], we can see that more than 70% of German members of the Bundestag are still on X.

We have to write our own scraper to add their emails, but we can already get an idea of who indirectly supports this disinformation tool.

https://leavex.eu/politicians-de/

Thank you @weddige for your work!

[1] https://github.com/politics-on-social-media/politics-on-social-media.github.io

#LeaveX #Germany #Bundestag

German MPs on X
71%
525 of 736 MPs are active on X — German MPs on X 71% 525 of 736 MPs are active on X

GitHub

GitHub - politics-on-social-media/politics-on-social-media.github.io

Contribute to politics-on-social-media/politics-on-social-media.github.io development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Darnell Clayton :verified:

@darnell@one.darnell.one · 4 weeks ago

@leavex @grob @weddige The #EuropeanUnion 🇪🇺 has provided a convenient tool listing which social networks #EU 🇪🇺 politicians are on: https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/social-media-channels_en

Also many EU 🇪🇺 members are still actively using #X (many politicians are worldwide).

Surprisingly there are more listed EU 🇪🇺 politicians using #Bluesky than #Threads & #Mastodon combined! The only listed EU 🇪🇺 account on the #Fediverse is @EU_Commission, which is very surprising as Mastodon was created in #Europe (specifically #Germany 🇩🇪).

European Union

Social media accounts | European Union

Check out social media accounts featuring EU content by using this search tool. Learn about what the EU is doing and join the debate.

Darnell (TeleVerse)

@darnell@darnell.tv · last month

Two glowing butterlies 🦋 in front of the European Union 🇪🇺 & American 🇺🇸 flags (image created using AI)

So, unless you have been living under a digital rock or distracted by wannabe dictators demanding ownership of allied lands, you probably missed hearing about a new European social network called W (which was highlighted at the Davos […]

https://darnell.tv/2026/01/22/bluesky-w-social/

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Claes de Vreese ☑️

@claesdevreese@mastodon.social · last month

And now something positive:

solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time.

☀️ 💨

#TippingPoint

Source: https://dr.dk

Graph showing green energy production surpassing black

Bram Koster

@BramKoster@mstdn.social · last month

@claesdevreese Yes, indeed good news! For the source of this information go to https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2026/01/EMBER-Report-European-Electricity-Review-2026.pdf Many more interesting facts and graphs on #cleanenergy can be found here. #ClimateChange #sustainability #ember #EuropeanUnion

Map of Europe with pictograms on countries notifying accomplishments on renewables, coal decline and battery storage.

View (PDF)

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@SocraticEthics@mastodon.online · last month

https://youtu.be/rmawho3TooE
🛑🇺🇸‘Trump would be asking his military to do something illegal’ if he ordered them annex Greenland (Times Radio VIDEO) #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Greenland #Nuuk #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #Cyprus #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #US #UK #EU #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

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@SocraticEthics@mastodon.online · last month

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opio ⏚

@opiobf@piaille.fr · last month

🇬🇧 Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2025/000005_en

#EuropeanCitizensInitiative #ECI #EU
#EuropeanUnion #Israel #Gaza #HumanRights

Initiative detail | European Citizens' InitiativeEnglish

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Ricardo Harvin

@ricardoharvin@mstdn.social · last month

Do the European Union and NATO finally understand that Trump is absolutely serious about what he wants, regardless of how outlandish his stated goals?

Unless he's challenged with concrete action (calling his bluff), Trump will do all he can to get what he wants.

His bluff wasn't called on Venezuela, so he kept raising the stakes.

Perhaps our allies learned a valuable lesson?

#EuropeanUnion #NATO #EU #Trump #Greenland #trade

Ricardo Harvin

@ricardoharvin@mstdn.social · last month

Do the European Union and NATO finally understand that Trump is absolutely serious about what he wants, regardless of how outlandish his stated goals?

Unless he's challenged with concrete action (calling his bluff), Trump will do all he can to get what he wants.

His bluff wasn't called on Venezuela, so he kept raising the stakes.

Perhaps our allies learned a valuable lesson?

#EuropeanUnion #NATO #EU #Trump #Greenland #trade