Disinformation, 'fake news' and the EU's response
At a Glance
07-11-2017
The impact of the online spread of mis- and disinformation – including false news posing as factual stories – became increasingly visible in the context of the crisis in Ukraine, and gained notoriety as a global phenomenon during the 2016 presidential election campaign in the United States. Ahead of the European elections in 2019, the EU's answers to these challenges are still only tentative.
At a Glance
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- America
- common foreign and security policy
- communications
- disinformation
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- Europe
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- foreign policy
- freedom of communication
- GEOGRAPHY
- information warfare
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- LAW
- political geography
- political propaganda
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- rights and freedoms
- Russia
- social media
- United States