Gatestone Institute: The EU has launched a comprehensive Action Plan against Disinformation. Its purpose, according to a recent press release from the European Commission, is apparently to “protect its democratic systems and public debates and in view of the 2019 European elections as well as a number of national and local elections that will be held in Member States by 2020”.
In June 2018, leaders of EU member states had met in the European Council and invited the European Commission “to present… an action plan by December 2018 with specific proposals for a coordinated EU response to the challenge of disinformation…” It is this action plan that the Commission presented to the public on December 5.
The Action Plan focuses on four areas:
- Improved detection of disinformation (the European Commission dedicated 5 million euros toward this project and seemingly expects Member states to contribute on a national level, as well).
- Coordinated Response — the EU institutions and Member States will set up a Rapid Alert System “to facilitate the sharing of data and assessments of disinformation campaigns”. The Rapid Alert System will be set up by March 2019 and “will be complemented by further strengthening relevant resources”.
- Online platforms and industry are called on to ensure “transparency of political advertising, stepping up efforts to close active fake accounts, labelling non-human interactions (messages spread automatically by ‘bots’) and cooperating with fact-checkers and academic researchers to detect disinformation campaigns and make fact-checked content more visible and widespread” in accordance with a previously signed Code of Practice against Disinformation.
- Raising awareness and empowering citizens: In addition to “targeted awareness campaigns”, the “EU institutions and Member States will promote media literacy through dedicated programmes. Support will be provided to national multidisciplinary teams of independent fact-checkers and researchers to detect and expose disinformation campaigns across social networks”. In 2018, citizens are suddenly no longer “media literate” and need to be “empowered” in order to be told how and what to think.
Crucially, and as mentioned above, the Action Plan relies on the previously introduced, Code of Practice on Disinformation, which the online tech giants — Facebook, Google, Twitter and Mozilla — signed in October 2018. The Code of Practice is necessary, because, according to EU Commissioner for the Security Union Sir Julian King: MORE
h/t Forcibly Deranged.
It’s not that the progs don’t know anything, but what they know is completely wrong. From economics to academia to social to planetary to politics to scientific to… ohh, wait, I’m starting to catch on now. Their disinformation should be our information. I knew it wouldn’t stop with common core 2+2=5.
Well Heil Hitler to you EU.
“In 2018, citizens are suddenly no longer “media literate” and need to be “empowered” in order to be told how and what to think?<"
Dreamed up by our really smart betters.
I guess I will have to wait till March so I know what to think about this?
The Ghost of Montagne says they’re all fucktards now and deserve what happens to them
I recall the biggest hi-tech planned roll-out a few years back and Obolo-CAIR was comedy gold for the fails in trying to even stay on-line as well as the numerous faults within that big-ol hi-tech POC. This EU network will likely be the opposite; they will catch every bit of their targeted ‘fake’ news and shut it down, pull pages offline and effectively make it impossible for an EU citizen to find out anything; except what they are supposed to be fed. Europe is screwed.
good thing Trump rescinded that control of the internet order by shithead.