A leading Eurocrat has called for more controls on speech in order to confront the supposed scourge of “disinformation narratives” within the bloc.
Despite finding that so-called disinformation did not play a major role in deciding the European Parliament elections in June, European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová said that a “whole of society” approach will be necessary to clamp down on speech.
She said in comments reported by POLITICO that this would include “strategic communication, pre-bunking of the disinformation narratives, effective law enforcement for the digital space, strong independent media as well as the research, fact-checking and critical thinking.”
The push for even more censorship by Brussels comes in the wake of an assesment by the suppoedly independent European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), which claimed that in the lead up to the EU elections, there was the highest ever recorded level of EU-related online disinformation.
