Journalist with Follow the Money. All things tech, EU, transparency. FOI curious.
Alexander Fanta
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⚡ EU watchdog warns against mass deletion of leaders' texts📱
Ursula von der Leyen is under fire once again over her texting. This time, the European Ombudsman told the Commission chief to stop auto-deleting her texts with EU leaders.
Read the scoop (gift link):
www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-...
Tony Blair, who once led Britain into Iraq, is quietly trying to sell Trump’s Gaza to European governments.
Here's how that is going (🎁 link):
www.ftm.eu/articles/ton...
In case you missed our article about Manfred Weber’s (big fat Greek) raid on the European People’s Party, I just discussed it with @emmaduchatinier.bsky.social for the @ftm.eu podcast ⤵️
News update: As our story published, xAI quietly changed its contact address again, to another office in Estonia.
I'm taking bets on whether, this time, their "office" is for real.
SNEAKY - on 5 June the Council of the EU is holding a non-public event at its Brussels headquarters to mark the 25th anniversary of the EU’s transparency law, Regulation 1049/2001. Yes, you heard that right – there’s a closed-door event to celebrate transparency.
PHANTOM OFFICE: Elon Musk’s AI company xAI that runs X chatbot Grok has quietly moved its official European point of contact for users to Estonia – to a building whose owner says it has no contract with the company or its representatives.
Gift link:
www.ftm.eu/articles/elo...
Ursula von der Leyen and her fellow commissioners shouldn’t auto-delete text messages, the European Ombudswoman has decided. Even after Pfizergate, the EC President kept using the disappearing messages function on Signal to communicate with EU leaders like Emmanuel Macron. And that needs to change.
