NATO’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg told Playbook that he does not believed in “fighting propaganda with propaganda.” The EU also stays out of the propaganda game (mostly) but has created a team “East StratCom” in its External Action Service to catalogue and expose disinformation it says comes from the Russian state. So far it claims to have found nearly 2,500 examples of Russian disinformation.
You can imagine Playbook’s surprise when journalists were invited to a briefing this week on said disinformation, only to be told they couldn’t quote the diplomats giving the briefing. Reporters were, in other words, asked to expose disinformation …read more
Source: European Voice
