On Thursday 9 January, five members of the German SPD party - including four MEPs - issued recommendations to strengthen democratic processes in the European Union in the face of the risks that could arise from the manipulation of online social networks, while on the same day, the owner of the digital platform X, US entrepreneur Elon Musk, hosted a livestream chat on X with the leader of Germany’s far-right AfD party, Alice Weidel, to promote her candidacy for the German parliamentary...