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#DSA
#EUInfoSec
#Disinformation
-exploits legal grey zones.
"Defending democracy means closing them-carefully, transparently, and proportionately."
#DigitalSovereignty
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Next: AI panic is loud—but most disinformation in 2024 was still human-made, old-school, and emotional.
Let’s close the series with what didn’t change.
#Disinformation #CivicResilience #EUInfoSec
Next: the disinfo didn’t stop after the votes were cast. It evolved.
#MediaLiteracy #EUInfoSec #ElectionIntegrity
Climate action won’t win hearts with facts alone.
Because disinfo doesn’t need data. It needs:
— A villain
— A loss
— A frame
And it found all three in the 2024 campaigns.
Next up: who helped spread the lies—intentionally or not.
#Disinformation #ClimateCrisis #EUInfoSec
They said:
“Migrants are invading.”
“They’re violent.”
“They’re collapsing our systems.”
In the 2024 EU elections, false stories about migration were a central disinfo weapon—targeted, emotional, and deeply local.
#Disinformation #EUElections2024 #EUInfoSec
In almost every country studied, one narrative kept showing up:
“The election is rigged.”
“Your vote won’t count.”
“The system is broken.”
These weren’t isolated claims.
They were a manufactured crisis, scaled across borders.
#Disinformation #ElectionIntegrity #EUInfoSec
Yesterday we opened the archive.
278 confirmed falsehoods.
20 EU countries.
One election under pressure.
Now let’s zoom in. Where did the disinformation hit hardest—and how did it move across the map?
#Disinformation #EUInfoSec #EUElections2024
So—if you’re curious, skeptical, or concerned about how elections are shaped by lies, start here.
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Tomorrow, we dig in.
First stop: where the disinformation hit hardest.
#Disinformation #EUInfoSec #EUElections2024 #ElectionIntegrity
Here’s what we learned from the biggest EU-wide study of election disinformation to date.
#EUInfoSec #Disinformation #EUElections2024
Next: the final thread—data, profiling, and the machinery behind modern propaganda.
#Disinformation #MediaFreedom #EUInfoSec
We’ll call this series:
“Disinformation Archaeology: A Guided Dig Through the History of Fake News”
Source:
📘 A Short Guide to the History of Fake News and Disinformation
ICFJ, 2016
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#Disinformation #MediaHistory #EUInfoSec
We’ll call this series:
“Disinformation Archaeology: A Guided Dig Through the History of Fake News”
Source:
📘 A Short Guide to the History of Fake News and Disinformation
ICFJ, 2016
www.icfj.org/sites/d...
#Disinformation #MediaHistory #EUInfoSec
That’s how you fight the propaganda weapon and keep your democracy intact.
But I'm just a civilian and I'm sure there's smarter folks out there able to have even better ideas.
#EUInfoSec #DigitalSovereignty #CivicResilience
Everyone’s asking:
How do we actually fight propaganda—without becoming censors or control freaks?
Here’s a grounded strategy, based on what would actually work—and what it would look like in real life.
#EUInfoSec #CivicResilience #RuleOfLaw
Because in the end, informed participation—not passive protection—is what keeps democracy alive.
#EUInfoSec #RuleOfLaw #MediaFreedom #CivicResilience
The stakes are rising. But panic won’t protect us.
Only resilience, built on clarity, legality, and public trust, will.
Disinformation exploits chaos.
Democracy requires order—with conscience.
#EUInfoSec #DigitalSovereignty #RuleOfLaw #MediaFreedom
One year later, her warnings feel even more urgent.
#EUInfoSec #RuleOfLaw
#EUInfoSec
#Disinformation
-exploits legal grey zones.
"Defending democracy means closing them-carefully, transparently, and proportionately."
#DigitalSovereignty
#DSA
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This is the dilemma of militant democracy.
#RuleOfLaw #MediaFreedom #EUInfoSec
Disinformation spreads faster, further, and more believably than ever before
And unless we understand the tools, we’ll keep fighting the messages—while missing the machinery behind them
Next: how far the EU is willing to go in response.
#EUInfoSec #AIethics #DigitalSovereignty
Disinformation isn’t just about what is said.
It’s about how fast, how far, and who believes it.
That’s where bots, algorithms, and deepfakes come in.
This is disinformation’s tech arsenal.
#EUInfoSec #DigitalSovereignty #AIethics
Disinformation exploits legal grey zones.
Defending democracy means closing them—carefully, transparently, and proportionately.
Next: the tech weapons in play—bots, deepfakes, and algorithmic manipulation.
#DigitalSovereignty #EUInfoSec #DSA
The EU calls disinformation a security threat.
But when it comes to regulating tech platforms?
It mostly asks nicely.
This is the EU’s regulation paradox: hard rhetoric, soft tools.
#DigitalSovereignty #EUInfoSec #DSA
We’re not in a “post-truth” world.
We’re in a high-conflict information environment—and knowing what kind of threat we’re facing is step one.
Next: how disinformation is spread—not just by what is said, but by how it travels.
#EUInfoSec #DigitalSovereignty #MediaLiteracy
Not all false information is created equal.
To fight disinformation effectively, we need to name it precisely.
That’s why the EU distinguishes between:
— Misinformation
— Disinformation
— Malinformation
Let’s break it down.
#MediaLiteracy #EUInfoSec #RuleOfLaw
Disinformation used to be seen as a media ethics issue.
Now it’s treated like a threat to national security.
The EU has securitized disinformation.
What does that mean—and why does it matter?
#EUInfoSec #RuleOfLaw #HybridThreats
Disinformation doesn’t always shout.
Sometimes, it just sits quietly in your feed, nodding along, playing “one of us.”
That’s the power of Potemkin personas—and the challenge of defending democracy in digital space.
#EUInfoSec #InfoOps #RuleOfLaw
They post vacation pics. Share memes. Argue politics.
But they’re not real.
Meet the Potemkin personas—fake online identities used to spread disinformation and influence EU debates from the inside.
#EUInfoSec #InfoOps #DigitalSovereignty
