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The foreign misinformation campaigns influencing European elections
Foreign interference and misinformation campaigns have targeted EU and domestic governments ahead of the 2024 European elections. These are some of the biggest.
Then, Alexander De Croo, Belgium’s prime minister, announced in April that Russia, through Voice of Europe, had approached members of the European Parliament and "paid them to promote Russian propaganda". Poland’s Internal Security Agency announced on March 28, a day after the initial revelation in Czechia, that they recovered "large sums of cash" in a similar investigation and charged one Polish national. France’s VIGINUM, a state agency created in 2021 to fight foreign interference, analysed “information portals” between September and December 2023 and found 193 sites that spread false claims suggesting Russia’s war in Ukraine is a legitimate military exercise.
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