"Disinformation, algorithmic manipulation, financial pressure on media and AI tools now threaten our democratic way of being."
"Authoritarian regimes are using hybrid tactics, attacking infrastructure, exploiting migration, manipulating information, deploying criminal networks and interfering in our electoral processes."
"EU officials want to work with tech companies on a new "incidents and crisis" protocol to make sure EU governments can act more swiftly if they spot a mass disinformation campaign."
"The EU's tech chief Henna Virkunnen said the bloc wants to ensure online platforms "are not misused or manipulated during electoral processes.""
The European Commission unveiled a "democracy shield" aimed at countering foreign interference and online disinformation. Measures include creating an EU center for democratic resilience and funding independent fact-checkers in all languages used across the bloc. Plans propose a cooperative "incidents and crisis" protocol with tech companies to enable quicker government responses to large disinformation campaigns. The Commission pledged to reinforce support for local and independent media and to assess modernizing advertising rules to improve media sustainability. Many measures are largely voluntary, and experts view them as an initial, limited step. Russia was explicitly accused of targeting the bloc with information manipulation and interference.
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