France is being “pounded” by Russian disinformation that could distort the result of the upcoming EU parliamentary elections, France’s minister for“We are being pounded by the propaganda of Vladimir Putin’s Russia and its communication corridors,” he said.
“The site is a fake government site and has been reposted by malevolent accounts as part of a disinformation campaign,” the French defence ministry said at the time. These “doppleganger” sites, identified as one of several forms of Russian disinformation, involve the creation of websites that look identical to bona fide and authoritative sources, such as government or mainstream media sites.was tightening up conditions of entry for Ukrainians, when, in fact, people from Ukraine are allowed to live and work in the EU under a bloc-wide temporary protection directive.Barrot said the risk to the EU elections on 6-9 June “is proven”.
Belgium, which holds the six-month rotating presidency of the EU, said it was looking at activating a temporary crisis taskforce to monitor and coordinate the response to Russian disinformation campaigns. The Integrated Political Crisis Response unit was last used at the start of the war in Ukraine and during the Covid pandemic. Sources in Belgium say it would be in operation for two months.He said the mission to “help elect more pro-Russian candidates in the European parliament and to reinforce a certain pro-Russian narrative in that institution” was “very clear”.
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