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For those not following all the developments here:
This investigation comes on top of the one started in December 2023 over several other breaches including a lack of data access for researchers studying the platforms.
I wrote about the background here:

https://www.science.org/content/article/meta-and-tiktok-are-obstructing-researchers-access-data-european-commission-rules

Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, European Commission rules

Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say

Theres Luethi Jan 4

The tree that made my day - a cembra pine in the Swiss Alps.
#nature #trees #hiking

Theres Luethi Jan 1

Year-end walk in the Swiss mountains with very little snow. Happy New Year and all the best for 2026!

Theres Luethi Dec 14

The US has gone all-in on artificial intelligence. But the idea of an end-of-times battle with China over tomorrow’s key technology is part delusion, part lobbying tool for Silicon Valley
@financialtimes

'In some ways, the American AI race looks not unlike the race to build the grandest cathedrals in late medieval Europe. Then, the motives were a mixture of pride, economics and a sincere religious belief the structures would bring humanity closer to salvation.'

https://www.ft.com/content/12581344-6e37-45a0-a9d5-e3d6a9f8d9ba

Client Challenge

Theres Luethi Nov 10

Technology | The Guardian US Nov 10

Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/10/investors-transhumanist-ideas-neurotech-progress-elon-musk #Medicalresearch #Neuroscience #Technology #Science

Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts

Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists

The Guardian

Theres Luethi Oct 24

Kai Kupferschmidt Oct 24

In the past 2 weeks several European countries have reported locally acquired cases of #mpox clade Ib.
This is new. There had been patients before but those infections likely happened elsewhere.
Now it looks like mpox Ib is spreading here in the sexual networks of men who have sex with men.

Theres Luethi Oct 24

Stammt #Covid-19 aus einem chinesischen Labor oder entstand das Coronavirus durch natürliche Übertragung vom Tier auf Mensch? In den USA glauben zwei Drittel der Menschen, dass Covid aus dem Labor kam. Hier in Europa dürften die Zahlen ähnlich aussehen. Kein Wunder: Die Medien berichten überdurchschnittlich viel über die Laborthese. Dadurch entsteht in der Öffentlichkeit der Eindruck, beide Möglichkeiten seien gleich wahrscheinlich.

Aber stimmt das?
#CovidOrigin

https://www.bazonline.ch/covid-warum-die-laborthese-trotz-fehlender-evidenz-ueberlebt-352578125683

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Theres Luethi Aug 10, 2025

Here is a film of the rock slide
https://share.google/eyZzeCPaswfKf2gp2

Before you continue to Google Search

Theres Luethi Aug 10, 2025

One of the most beautiful spots in Switzerland, the Val Bregaglia, right on the border to Italy.
#hiking

Theres Luethi Aug 10, 2025

Peter Gleick Aug 9, 2025

Richard Nixon resigned August 9, 1974... An era when there were consequences for presidents being corrupt criminals.

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