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The European approach to online disinformation

• jruohonen 3y ago
  "Consequently, two opposing logics, securitization and self-regulation, coexist and compete when determining the focus and political actions of the EU against disinformation. This contrast between a vision of hard power, facing a cardinal threat, and another of soft law, based on voluntarism and minimal intervention in the digital media industry, generates dissonance. As a result, the EU is being accused at the same time of promoting a strong discourse linking disinformation to security, exceptionality and geopolitical strategies, and being lax with the obligations and responsibilities of the digital platform companies. This has led to a significant internal contradiction that the new DSA may only now be starting to address. Its resolution will be key to determining not only future EU policies on this topic, but also conditioning its chances of success in the face of an increasingly growing problem for European democracy." Securitization is also something I've pointed out here many times.