Targeting the very foundation on which our democratic societies rely, disinformation campaigns that undermine electoral processes have become a pervasive phenomenon across the EU and globally. Being the first EU member state to even cancel an election after electoral integrity had been significantly compromised, Romania’s extreme experience of 2024 once more epitomized the fundamental threat disinformation represents for the viability of democracy.

As three of the six largest EU member states head to the poll this spring, this 75-minute panel hosted by EDMO draws on national insights from Germany, Romania, and Poland to inform an EU-wide, solution-oriented exchange on electoral disinformation and preparedness. Unpacking several harmful dynamics around digital political communication as well as national experiences in countering those, the panel features the following interdisciplinary experts from the EDMO network.

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