It was a bitter and knowing laugh that rippled through the audience when it was announced that Finnish politician and former Meta lobbyist Aura Salla would no longer be speaking at an event in Brussels last month.
Salla had been scheduled to explain her vision as a new Member of the European Parliament to this audience of several hundred (mostly) Big Tech skeptics who had gathered for the Tech and Society Summit in October. But the crowd’s reaction to her last-minute decision to pull out—her team claimed she had a clash—pointed to the reputation that precedes Salla in the city.
Before she was elected, the 40-year-old Finn spent three years leading
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