EU Parliament Committee Says Sanctions Regime Needed to Counter Disinformation
The EU should build a sanctions regime against disinformation, a European Parliament Special Committee on Foreign Interference said in the final conclusions of an 18-month investigation. The committee said that the European public and government are "'overwhelmingly' unaware of the…
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severity of the threat posed by foreign autocratic regimes," namely, Russia and China. This leads to a particular vulnerability to cyberattacks and the recruitment of former senior officials to help polarize the public debate, the report said. To counter such threats, the committee recommended supporting "pluralistic media" and fact-checkers, making online platforms invest in language skills to act on illegal and harmful content, designating digital election infrastructure as critical, banning foreign funding of European political parties and improving cybersecurity, among other things. The committee also recommended a sanctions regime to combat disinformation.