disinformation

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.

We would like to invite you to another debate in the Café Evropa series, this time on the topic "Disinformation - who spreads it and why?" The debate will take place on 7 November at 17:30 online on our Facebook page.

Disinformation and misinformation have been amplified in the digital age. In order to combat their increasing presence in our everyday lives, we have to first educate ourselves on what disinformation is. In this post, Jakub Ferencik looks at this question in some detail, primarily by analyzing Vladimir Putin’s usage of disinformation in politics.

EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy in collaboration with KohoVolit.eu and Demagog.cz held two workshops in Hradec Králové on the topic of disinformation and fake news.

EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, KohoVolit.eu and Demagog.cz invite you to the "Disinformation and fake news" workshop, which will take place on Wednesday, October 16 from 11 AM to 2 PM in the building A of University of Hradec Králové (room A5, Hradecká 1227).

We invite you to the workshop "Disinformation and fake news", which is co-organised by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy with KohoVolit.eu and Demagog.cz. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 11 from 5PM to 8PM on the premises of Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University (room S2155).

EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, KohoVolit.eu and Demagog.cz invite you to the "Disinformation and fake news" workshop, which will take place on Thursday, 16 April from 9:30AM to 5PM in the building of the Regional Authority of the Hradec Králové Region (Pivovarské nám. 1245; room 443).

Accept our sincere invitation to the public debate that is part of the series Café Evropa in the regions. This time in Olomouc on March 12th at 1.15 PM.