You'd think Europeans would want to foster a real tech market before trying to regulate it but I guess it's cheaper to just leave the expensive heavy lifting to the US and China.
Mainstream news is still far from accurate enough to gain a real understanding of the topic. At best it's a way of seeing what powerful people or groups are talking about but that's still far from actually being informative which is what the general public assumes the media to be. It's hard to see how useless news is more helpful than fake news.