"The counter-disinformation community gathered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for an annual conference this month, toward the end of a year that has seen Meta scrap its fact-checking program, a vaccine skeptic sworn in as U.S. health secretary, and readers increasingly turn to AI chatbots to find information. Over two days at Disinfo2025, a conference organized by the Brussels nonprofit EU Disinfo Lab, panelists including journalists, attorneys, analysts, and fact-checkers presented the latest developments in the rapidly evolving information landscape."
"Independent media models are struggling in many parts of the world. In contrast, Russia is throwing its weight behind training journalists, said Pierre Dagard, head of global advocacy at RSF. "In 2022, after the start of the war against Ukraine, Russia opened the War Correspondents' School in the occupied territories of Ukraine - the goal is to provide training...for future propagandists.""
The counter-disinformation community convened in Ljubljana for Disinfo2025 to examine recent shifts in the information environment. Panelists assessed foreign information manipulation and interference, journalism's economic challenges, and the risk that online influencers could disrupt peace processes. Russian malign influence operations received focused attention, including state-supported media training and cultural outreach in Africa. Participants debated Europe's capacity to act without U.S. backing. Attendees emphasized Big Tech's concentrated power over information flows and how platform incentives can accelerate lies, undermine independent media models, and complicate efforts to protect democratic discourse.
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