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The Disinformation Is Coming From Inside the House


Combatting information warfare and foreign disinformation is challenging. The EU offers some instructive lessons.

Vance and President Donald Trump’s Oval Office table-turning on Volodymyr Zelensky in February—casting him, not Vladimir Putin, as the obstacle to peace in Ukraine—is just the latest example of the purposeful misdirection and disinformation pedaled by our own elected leaders. Weeks earlier, Vance had stunned European leaders at the Munich Security Conference with his “world upside down” rhetoric, accusing them of being a threat to democracy for guarding against the menace of disinformation campaigns, mainly from Russia. Vance, Munich Security Conference, Russian disinformation, vladimir putin John Austin is the former president of the Michigan State Board of Education and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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