As billionaire media moguls were photographed taking front-row seats during President Trum’s inauguration, the view from Europe is one of fear for the future of democracy; fueling determination that the European Parliament’s advanced and famously stringent regulations will not be influenced by the blurred tech policies taking precedent in the US. With Meta facing backlash for scrapping its fact-checking resources, there are questions about how the US social media giants will adhere (or not) to the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), Digital Markets Act (DMA), and more recently the AI Act. Before we dive into where EU politicians stand on future US policies, it’s worth pointing out that (as of writing) Meta’s fact checkers have only been dropped in the…