FACTS FIRST: THE EUROPEAN APPROACH TO FAKE HISTORY. CASE STUDY – EU VS. DISINFO AND WWII MEMORIES
FACTS FIRST: THE EUROPEAN APPROACH TO FAKE HISTORY. CASE STUDY – EU VS. DISINFO AND WWII MEMORIES

Summary/Abstract: The European Union’s concern about the use of propaganda, disinformation and fake history increased in the last period and the European Institutions has sought new strategies to counter these phenomena, including by fact-checking and fact promoting. Thus, the European approach suggests that fact-checking, debunking and deconstructing disinformation and fake history should constitute the core of countering all information influence activities. The simple premise of this “facts first approach” is that disinformation should be countered by ensuring that citizens have access to facts. In this paper, by using the special website of EU East Task Force, EU vs. Disinfo, we aim to build the map of the disinformation cases about WWII and Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that circulated on the Russian or pro-Russian media between 2019 and 2021, and were deconstructed by the EU vs. Disinfo fact-checkers. By doing that we want to straight the role of euvsdisinfo.eu website in the fight against disinformation and fake history, and the importance of the European facts first approach.

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