{"id":8074,"date":"2025-12-26T08:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/five-europeans-denied-us-visas-for-combating-hate-speech-online-accused-of-censoring-american-viewpoints\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:56:45","slug":"five-europeans-denied-us-visas-for-combating-hate-speech-online-accused-of-censoring-american-viewpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/five-europeans-denied-us-visas-for-combating-hate-speech-online-accused-of-censoring-american-viewpoints\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Europeans denied US visas for combating hate speech online, accused of censoring \u2018American viewpoints\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/951bbd7e-7408-11ef-b79c-005056a97e36\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/000_36GE46E.jpg\" \/><br \/>The US State Department said Tuesday that it would deny visas to five Europeans, including former EU commissioner Thierry Breton, accusing them of seeking to censor &#8220;American viewpoints&#8221; online. All five are leaders in EU efforts to counter hate speech and disinformation in the digital sphere.\u00a0Br\u00e9ton likened the move to &#8220;McCarthy&#8217;s witch hunt&#8221; in a post on X.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/technology\/20251224-us-bars-five-europeans-over-alleged-pressure-on-tech-firms-to-censor-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department said Tuesday that it would deny visas to five Europeans, including former EU commissioner Thierry Breton, accusing them of seeking to censor &#8220;American viewpoints&#8221; online. All&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}