Overview
- The State Department denied entry to Thierry Breton, Imran Ahmed, Clare Melford, Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon, citing efforts to impose stricter platform moderation that it characterizes as extraterritorial censorship.
- Imran Ahmed, a British citizen with U.S. permanent residency, sued the Trump administration in New York and obtained a temporary restraining order blocking his arrest or expulsion until a hearing scheduled for Monday.
- U.S. officials point to CCDH's "disinformation dozen" work, alleging the group pressed platforms to remove 12 American anti-vaccine figures, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- France, Germany and EU institutions condemned the bans as intimidation of European digital sovereignty, with President Emmanuel Macron pledging to defend the bloc's regulatory autonomy.
- Industrial ripples are emerging, as Airbus said it plans to seek a sovereign European cloud solution to lessen reliance on U.S. providers subject to the Cloud Act.