Brussel says it is worried by disinformation ahead of EU election

The European Commission on Tuesday expressed concerns about online disinformation campaigns potentially targeting next year’s European elections. Vice-President V?ra Jourová called on social media platforms to take action and singled out the Kremlin as one of the main drivers behind misleading online content, targeted at users in the European Union. EU citizens are to vote in a new European Parliament next June. “The Russian state has engaged in the war of ideas to pollute our information space with half-truths and lies to create a false image that democracy is no…

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