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EU 'all bark and no bite' on disinformation

EU & the World

Opinion

by Dimitar Lilkov, Brussels,

"The dogs bark but the caravan moves on", goes the old Arabic proverb. The European Parliament elections are done and dusted, voter turnout went up and all seems fine.

The Brussels elite can finally devote time to real issues such as the semantics of the titles of new commissioner portfolios.

Disinformation and election interference, some of the most pressing worries earlier in 2019, seem settled and perhaps not deserving our attention.

However, a

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Dimitar Lilkov is a researcher at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

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Facebook boasted the creation of its new ad library in a move to increase transparency. In fact, the ad library remains limited and full of technical glitches (Photo: Eduardo Woo)