When investigations describe fake personas, disguised information platforms, military-linked influence operations, or outsourced political targeting linked to Israeli actors, Europe usually reaches for a different vocabulary than it does when Russia or China do the same thing.
Bulgaria votes in three weeks. Its information environment is already being shaped by forces that nobody is controlling or investigating, and nobody seems particularly rushed to understand.
The ex-ministers, ambassadors, and diplomats accuse French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot of spreading disinformation and called for a correction of his comments about UN rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese.
The EU Democracy Shield has a blind spot: Europe isn’t auditing what AI actually tells its citizens. When Russian-speaking Europeans ask an AI about the war in Ukraine, they may receive systematically different answers than their English-speaking neighbours.
In a fresh effort to recast regulation as censorship, a new 160-page report from the US House Judiciary Committee alleges Brussels pressured Big Tech platforms to censor US speech, including around the 2024 presidential elections.