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Europe Needs a Plan to Fight Putin’s Trolls

Citizen awareness and sanctions are the best defenses against disinformation.

March 25, 2019 at 5:30 AM UTC

By The Editorial Board

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This article is part of the April 1, 2019 issue of businessweek.

Europe is bracing for a Russian propaganda onslaught in the run-up to this May’s parliamentary elections. The European Commission predicts the Kremlin’s disinformation operations will be “systematic, well-resourced and on a different scale to other countries.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal is to expand the Euroskeptic bloc in the next European Parliament in order to weaken EU cohesion and accommodate Russian interests.