{"id":17169,"date":"2025-01-09T14:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/musk-lying-like-hell-over-afd-interview-says-ex-eu-tech-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:37:44","slug":"musk-lying-like-hell-over-afd-interview-says-ex-eu-tech-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/musk-lying-like-hell-over-afd-interview-says-ex-eu-tech-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk \u2018lying like hell\u2019 over AfD interview, says ex-EU tech leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thierry Breton says EU is not trying to censor tech chief\u2019s discussion with Alice Weidel of German far-right party<\/p>\n<p>A former EU leader on tech has accused Elon Musk of \u201clying like hell\u201d by claiming the bloc was trying to stop an interview the owner of X had set up with the co-leader of the German far-right party Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland.<\/p>\n<p>Thierry Breton, who quit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/16\/france-european-commissioner-thierry-breton-resigns-amid-row-with-von-der-leyen\">as a European commissioner in September<\/a>, having overseen the passage of ambitious legislation designed to regulate big tech, said Musk had been disingenuous in claiming the EU was trying to censor his discussion with Alice Weidel, due to take place on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/09\/elon-musk-lying-like-hell-afd-interview-thierry-breton-eu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4b719c2aeb39f8b0fd3bf7fa0bea03b2a0354b01\/0_110_3324_1995\/master\/3324.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=929c5c59e594ed3d9ec0996a2381706b\" title=\"Musk \u2018lying like hell\u2019 over AfD interview, says ex-EU tech leader\" \/>Thierry Breton says EU is not trying to censor tech chief\u2019s discussion with Alice Weidel of German far-right party<br \/>\nA former EU leader on tech has accused Elon Musk of \u201clying like hell\u201d by claiming the bloc was trying to stop an interview the owner of X had set up with the co-leader of the German far-right party Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland.<br \/>\nThierry Breton, who quit as a European commissioner in September, having overseen the passage of ambitious legislation designed to regulate big tech, said Musk had been disingenuous in claiming the EU was trying to censor his discussion with Alice Weidel, due to take place on Thursday evening. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thierry Breton says EU is not trying to censor tech chief\u2019s discussion with Alice Weidel of German far-right party A former EU leader on tech has accused Elon Musk of \u201clying like hell\u201d by claiming the bloc was trying to stop an interview the owner of X had set up with the co-leader of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/musk-lying-like-hell-over-afd-interview-says-ex-eu-tech-leader\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musk \u2018lying like hell\u2019 over AfD interview, says ex-EU tech leader<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}