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Erdogan: Turkey to ratify Sweden's NATO bid if US approves F-16 sales to Ankara
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the Turkish parliament would ratify Sweden's accession to NATO if the U.S. approves the sale of its F-16 fighter jets to Ankara, Reuters reported on Sept. 26.

Erdogan told reporters on his flight back from Azerbaijan that Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed the issue of Sweden's NATO aspirations with U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken in New York last week.

According to the Turkish president, the Biden administration is linking the F-16 sales to Ankara's approval of the Swedish NATO bid.

"If they (the U.S.) keep their promises, our parliament will keep its own promise as well. Turkish parliament will have the final say on Sweden's NATO membership," Erdogan said.

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EU calls Musk's social network "X" largest source of Russian disinformation
After analyzing reports on how tech companies deal with disinformation, the European Union has recognized billionaire Elon Musk's social network X (formerly Twitter) as the largest means of spreading Russian lies and propaganda
Bloomberg reports about this.

Věra Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission, said that the platforms need to act ahead of the national and European elections to be held next year.

"This is a multi-million euro weapon of mass manipulation aimed both internally at the Russians as well as Europeans and the rest of the world. The very large platforms must address this risk. Especially that we have to expect that the Kremlin and others will be active before our European elections," she said.

Most major tech companies, including Facebook Meta Platforms, Google, and TikTok, have agreed to work with the EU on a voluntary code of conduct that aims to set industry standards for fact-checking and other measures. The bloc has also implemented a pilot project to assess the extent of the problem.

"X, former Twitter, who is not under the code any more, is the platform with the largest ratio of mis- or disinformation posts. The pilot also showed that disinformation actors were found to have significantly more followers than their non-disinformation counterparts and tend to have joined the platform more recently than non-disinformation users," Jourová said.

The European Commission vice president called on Twitter to "comply with hard law" as the social network is recognized as a major online platform.

Jourová also said that the impact of Russian disinformation is particularly acute in Slovakia, where elections are being held on Saturday.

"Slovakia has been chosen as the country where there is fertile ground for success of the Russian pro-Kremlin, pro-war narratives. The election this week will be a test case because the approach to Russian war in Ukraine is a divisive line," she said, adding that Facebook and Google have taken some steps to strengthen their efforts to combat fake news following pressure from the EU.

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Elon Musk – another ally in the freedom fight of families and the peace mission.
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We have also talked at length about the war in Ukraine. We agreed that we need the soonest possible ceasefire and lasting peace. I am especially glad that – thanks to our conversation – he has also understood the problems of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia.
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