It is totally reasonable to assume that a “fear” is motivating those companies to do something. Given at least 5 people here misunderstood the headline it’s pretty clearly ambiguous and thus bad. It would be really easy to fix too, e.g.
75% of European businesses fear a US tech Kill Switch as much as a ransomware attack — being cut off from US cloud and services could deal an economic death blow, with sovereign alternatives needed
Not really, since it’s talking about what they fear, not what they plan to do.
It is totally reasonable to assume that a “fear” is motivating those companies to do something. Given at least 5 people here misunderstood the headline it’s pretty clearly ambiguous and thus bad. It would be really easy to fix too, e.g.