The EU is coming after big tech again — this time for political ads

The big tech companies are already the subject of extensive regulatory scrutiny in the European Union. Now, they’re set to some more heat over political ads. In a bid to push more transparency in political campaigning, the EU is said to be considering new regulations so that “people know who is behind the campaigning, who pays [for] it, what are the interests.” “For us the task of the day is to come up with the rules which will protect the autonomous decision-making of the voters,” Vera Jourova, EU Commissioner for Justice, told CNBC. “We don’t want the elections to be…

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