Parmy Olson, Columnist

Europe, Don’t Bow to Trump on Tech

Brussels has the right tools to rein in Big Tech. Now it needs the backbone.

January 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM UTC

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.”

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He hasn’t taken office yet, but the potent influence of President-elect Donald Trump may have already extended from Silicon Valley to Brussels.

Just days after Mark Zuckerberg said he would shut down fact-checking for American users on Meta Platforms Inc., an obvious placating move to Trump, the European Commission has said it’s “assessing” investigations into the market dominance of Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Meta.