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Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
The Trump administration pressured multiple countries to withdraw their sponsorship of a leading European conference on disinformation, with Canada, Lithuania and the EU’s diplomatic service subsequently agreeing to do so, the Guardian understands.
The conference, #Disinfo2026, taking place Wednesday and Thursday, is the annual meetup of Europe’s counter-disinformation community and has drawn hundreds of researchers, journalists, technologists and policymakers to a hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is run by an independent Brussels non-profit, EU Disinfo Lab.
Days before the conference, the logos of its main supporters – the Lithuanian ministry of foreign affairs, the European External Action Service (EEAS) and Global Affairs Canada, the country’s foreign ministry – were wiped off its website.
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WTF! Our European leaders need to know they’re fucked if they bend to that type of bullshit.
Not that they haven’t already, but can they make their MO any more obvious?
No, you don’t get it. This is tactical EU appeasing to the Orange to buy time and then we’ll get independent, take that Orange!!! /s
But really I feel horrible, I had a feeling that EU was like at least 1% more independent.
