Disinformation and foreign interference have been concerns in global politics for centuries, but social media algorithms have made the current threat more dire as they amplify content based on human frailties such as our obsession with negativity and outrage. Russian interference in the 2016 US federal election and other elections and referenda in at least twenty countries between November 2016 and April 2019, including the Brexit referendum, the French and German elections, and the Ukrainian power grid cyber-attacks, have highlighted the potential for foreign governments to alter the results of an election or undermine democracies using social media and other means. Writes Jakub Ferenčík in his last EU MONITOR.
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Show moreWe would like to invite you to a debate "Evaluating EU-NATO cooperation, Czech involvement, and the prospect of improvement under new US leadership". The event will take place on Thursday 10 December between 17:30–19:00 on Facebook.
Show moreThe new direction of the Slovak political scene and the significance of this development within the Visegrad region: that is the topic our Miroslava Pěčková deals with in her latest EU Monitor.
Show more PDFNové směřování slovenské politické scény a význam tohoto vývoje v rámci visegrádského regionu je téma, kterému se ve svém nejnovějším EU Monitoru věnuje naše Miroslava Pěčková.
Show more PDFOn the occasion of the anniversary of the ninth European Parliament elections, which took place from 23 to 26 May 2019, experts of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy prepared five analyses reflecting on the past year in the key areas: climate, multiannual financial framework, migration, geopolitics and European Union enlargement.
Show more PDFK příležitosti výročí devátých voleb do Evropského parlamentu, které se konaly 23. až 26. května 2019, vypracovali odborníci Institutu pro evropskou politiku EUROPEUM pět analýz, v nichž se zamýšlí nad uplynulým rokem v klíčových oblastech: klima, víceletý finanční rámec, migrace, geopolitika a rozšiřování Evropské unie.
Show more PDFKosovo, the coronavirus crisis and the political crisis: these are the topics of our Jana Juzová's latest blog article.
Show moreKosovo, koronavirová krize a krize politická: těmto tématům se ve svém nejnovější blogu věnuje naše Jana Juzová.
Show moreWill the V4 countries stand together while negotiating the climate policies, or will the differences in their energy mixes send each of them in a different way? What are the reasons for Polish hesitant stance on 2050 climate neutrality? These and other questions are answered in the policy paper by Ryszarda Formuszewicz, which she published as part of the Think Visegrad platform.
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