Disinformation and elections to the European Parliament
| Titel: | Disinformation and elections to the European Parliament / Annegret Bendiek and Matthias Schulze ; Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs ; translation by Tom Genrich |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Berlin : SWP, [March 2019] |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (8 Seiten) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
SWP comment ; 2019, no. 16 (March 2019) |
| Einheitssachtitel: | Desinformation und die Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament |
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Übersetzung von: Bendiek, Annegret, 1970 -. Desinformation und die Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament. - Berlin : SWP, 2019. - 1 Online-Ressource (8 Seiten)
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| Bemerkung: | English version of SWP-Aktuell 10/2019 |
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| Zusammenfassung: |
Zusammenfassung: Elections to the European Parliament (EP) will take place in May 2019. Politicians and experts fear that the election process might be disrupted by disinformation campaigns and cyber attacks. In December 2018, the European Commission presented an action plan against disinformation. It provided 5 million euros for raising awareness amongst voters and policymakers about manipulation, and for increasing the cyber security of electoral systems and processes. The strategy relies on voluntary and nonbinding approaches by Internet companies to fight disinformation. To protect the integrity of elections in the medium term, independent research into technical, legal and market-regulating reforms must be boosted. The objective should be to preserve the functionality of democracies and elections in the age of digitalisation |
