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The original story came from a French newspaper lepoint [1] which then was picked up by ft [2].

Google proposed an alliance between booking.com, zal, ubisoft, carrefour,... to launch an advertising campaign to weaken the position of European lawmakers.

The most alarming piece of google's "DSA 60-day plan update" presentation is that they also wanted to mobilise the US government to lobby against it via trade representative offices and embassies.

[1]https://www.lepoint.fr/high-tech-internet/exclusif-comment-g... (paywalled)

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/d9d05b1e-45c0-44b8-a1ba-3aa6d0561...




You can read the article from Le Point here https://www.pressreader.com/france/le-point/20201029/2853748...


> ... they also wanted to mobilise the US government to lobby against it via trade representative offices and embassies.

Seems like they're copying the RIAA and MPAA approach for that bit.




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