Ahead of the European elections in 2024, the EU must strengthen its electoral instruments against malign interests, says MEP Sandra Kalniete.
How to fight disinformation
Parliament acts to protect democracy and ensure access to quality information
How to fight disinformation
Parliament acts to protect democracy and ensure access to quality information
Foreign interference, disinformation and attacks on democracy are likely to continue in ever greater numbers and become more sophisticated in the run-up to the European elections in 2024.
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Parliament calls for a coordinated strategy to increase the EU’s resilience to foreign interference and information manipulation and protect the 2024 European elections .
Find out more about disinformation
Find out more about disinformation
Special committee on foreign interference
The committee's second report
Parliament publications on disinformation
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The EU’s lack of awareness and counter-measures makes interference an attractive tactic for malicious foreign actors and endangers democracy, say MEPs.
Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Parliament will vote on a report with recommendations on how to stop dangerous foreign attacks on democracy.
The EU should have a specific regime of sanctions to tackle foreign interference and disinformation campaigns by foreign powers, according to a Parliament committee.
Understanding disinformation
Understanding disinformation
How to spot when news is fake
Understanding conspiracy theory
From post-truth to post-trust?
Computational propaganda techniques
The challenges of regulating disinformation with artificial intelligence
Foreign influence operations in the EU
EU countering disinformation
EU countering disinformation
Briefing on EU's response to online disinformation
What Europe does for fact-checkers
The European Parliament creates a science-media hub to fight scientific disinformation
Video: How disinformation affects democracy
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MEPs warn that Russia’s disinformation campaigns are the main source of disinformation in Europe, along with China, Iran and North Korea.
Hostile propaganda that seeks to undermine the EU could influence the upcoming European elections. We talked to MEP Anna Fotyga about how to counteract it.
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Foreign electoral interference seriously threatens European democratic societies to the benefit of anti-EU, right-wing extremist and populist forces, warn MEPs.
Studies on disinformation
Studies on disinformation
Disinformation and propaganda – impact on the functioning of the rule of law in the EU and its member states
Automated tackling of disinformation
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Debates and hearings
Special committee on foreign interference
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