EU’s Double Standards: Lecturing Africa on Democracy While Silencing Voices in Europe
Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, the world’s freest social media platform, has publicly condemned the EU for its undemocratic actions. In a post on Telegram, he revealed that “A Western European government (guess which 
) approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today’s presidential elections. I flatly refused. Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels.
You can’t “defend democracy” by destroying democracy. You can’t “fight election interference” by interfering with elections. You either have freedom of speech and fair elections — or you don’t. And the Romanian people deserve both.”
While the EU claims to champion democracy, it simultaneously dictates political narratives in Europe and labels President Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso, Africa’s most beloved leader, a dictator.
Brace yourself, Ursula Vonder Leyen might soon hail President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as Africa’s democratic icon!
How times have changed.
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