At the RADAR Policy Conference “From Elections to Everyday: Strategies against Disinformation in the EU”, youth-led policy recommendations on countering disinformation and its effects were presented to an audience of top-level EU practitioners, academics, and the general public. Formulated during the course of national events in Austria, Finland, Germany, Italy, and Poland, and finalised in a Youth Workshop in Brussels, these recommendations represent the culmination of 18 months of work involving dozens of young Europeans from across the continent.
In this TEPSA Explainer, Alice Stollmeyer from Defend Democracy, The Good Lobby’s Kelsey Beltz, Toma Šutić, Member of Cabinet to European Commissioner Dubravka Šuica, and RADAR Youth Ambassador Katariina Mäkilä take us through the reasons why such action against disinformation is not only warranted but vital, what has been done and can be improved in Europe’s work to counter disinformation, and policy proposals to improve our efforts moving forward. This video was recorded throughout the duration of the conference with attendees and participants, and explains more about the need to comprehensively address disinformation in the EU and beyond.
This video serves as a companion piece to the RADAR Policy Recommendations “Countering the most critical disinformation narratives in the European Union, which you can read here. RADAR (Raising Awareness on Disinformation: Achieving Resilience), TEPSA’s cutting-edge project, forged connections between citizens across Europe, experts, journalists, national and EU policy-makers to advocate for counter-disinformation initiatives and raise awareness of disinformation within the EU.
