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Here's your daily crunch. In a formalization of an earlier Twitter-led push to try to wield influence over fast-forming European digital regulations, the social media firm has used its

Twitter Spaces platform to host the official kickoff of a policy advocacy lobby group that's

being branded the Open Internet Alliance, OIA, alongside

Twitter, video streaming platform Vimio, Automatic, the company behind Wordpress.com,

Wu Commerce and Tumblr, the Czech and Slovak

focused search engine company Seznam and Yodal a Berlin-based profile-less

social network are named as founding members.

Twitter said the establishment of this formal lobbying alliance has been some two years in the making.

Speaking during a Twitter Space's event today to discuss the formation of the alliance,

Twitter's global policy VP said the group is today to discuss the formation of the Alliance,

Twitter's global policy VP said the group is making a plea to

lawmakers to think about the wider web ecosystem

rather than see the internet as a monolith

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