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The EU's plans must now leave Mark Zuckerberg in no doubt that it will regulate on its terms, not Facebook's (Photo: Cyril Attias)

Only EU can tame Zuckerberg's Facebook

When the EU speaks, Silicon Valley listens.

To those who see Europe as a large, but ineffective global power, this might sound counterintuitive. But it's true.

It's no coincidence that Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg travelled to Brussels this week to make his case for social media regulation, following the footsteps of Alphabet's [Google's holding company] chief executive officer's back in January.

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Christoph Schott is campaign director at Avaaz, the global web-based activist platform.

The EU's plans must now leave Mark Zuckerberg in no doubt that it will regulate on its terms, not Facebook's (Photo: Cyril Attias)

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Christoph Schott is campaign director at Avaaz, the global web-based activist platform.

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