katzenberger 🇺🇦<p>The dirty legacy of <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/YlvaJohansson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YlvaJohansson</span></a>, the former <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> Commissioner for Home Affairs, also includes paid advertising on <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a>, to influence the notoriously sceptical Dutch population towards accepting <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/ChatControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatControl</span></a>. </p><p>The European Data Protection Supervisor <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/EDPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EDPS</span></a> now decided this was illegal. <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> organization <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/NOYB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NOYB</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@noybeu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>noybeu</span></a></span>:</p><p>»The European Commission did however not only post these political messages, but also targeted users who weren't interested in keywords like: <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Qatargate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Qatargate</span></a>, brexit, Marine Le Pen, Alternative für Deutschland, Vox, Christian, Christian-phobia or Giorgia Meloni. The clear intention was to only target politically liberal or left users, but not conservative or right-wing users.«</p><p><a href="https://noyb.eu/en/political-microtargeting-eu-commission-illegal" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">noyb.eu/en/political-microtarg</span><span class="invisible">eting-eu-commission-illegal</span></a></p>