The EU's Ill-Equipped Response to Disinformation

The EU approaches disinformation as a primarily technological problem, resulting from the externalities of the digital information environment. Deregulation is embodied in the Digital Services Act (DSA), which aims to set up guardrails to protect citizens online. We need to upgrade our public diplomacy capabilities, particularly in critical regions like Africa and Latin America where Russia and China are competing for influence very successfully. Most people have no sense of how organizations like China's United Front operate or why Tik Talk is such a massive security threat. The full transparency around foreign malign activity is incredibly important ahead of Russia's invasion next year.