EU FIGHTS FAKE NEWS MACHINE FROM SHADOWS: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told Playbook he does not believe in “fighting propaganda with propaganda.†The EU also stays out of the propaganda game (mostly) but has created a team called “East StratCom†in the 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 Monday on said disinformation, only to be told they couldn’t quote the
diplomats giving the briefing. Reporters were, in other …read more
Source: European Voice
