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I don't see how banning foreign entities or forcing them to become local would help: many of the disruptive entities in Europe are locally owned.

Bolloré owns some major influential right-wing media in France, Axel Springer does the same in Germany (and even in the US - Politico), and so on. Axel Springer is also quite pro-American as well as being right-wing, and Bolloré is quite aligned with the North American right wing, both the anglophone and (in Quebec) francophone varieties. Plus the US Republican Party and the Conservative Party of Canada have major ties to EU member state Hungary and the current Orbán regime, which controls much of the media in that country.

All of these entities feed and profit off of rage, despite being EU-owned.



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