Matthias published an OpEd with golem.de, a leading IT website in Germany. The Op-Ed warns that the United States is experiencing a tech-enabled authoritarian shift, where the undermining of liberal democracy is happening openly and systematically, not secretly. Influential tech leaders like Elon Musk and other “tech-bro” billionaires, alongside former President Trump, are seizing control of key institutions, sidelining democratic checks, and utilizing digital technologies for surveillance, censorship, and manipulation. This tech-authoritarianism leverages the power of Silicon Valley to strengthen state control at home and to destabilize democracies abroad, including in Europe, through disinformation and aggressive use of social media platforms. Europe can no longer view its technological and informational dependence on the U.S. as merely theoretical but now faces real, acute security and sovereignty risks. 

Read the OpEd here.  

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