EU blames disinformation campaigns for low voter interest in elections | DW News

The EU has made a major push to boost voter turnout ahead of this year's parliamentary elections. Already stung by the Brexit referendum, the bloc faces growing Euro-skepticism coupled with concerns over online disinformation campaigns trying to confuse voters. Last year, the EU Commission launched a taskforce to step up its response to foreign, anti-EU content. Now, European Union institutions have poured enormous resources into "Get out the vote" campaigns. But critics say these efforts may be too little, too late.

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[stephanHK]

OLD SAME STORY EVERY TIME: it's always

Is there anybody who still believe this nonsense..???

[cancerino]

Make the commission's more directly elected. People will only care about the elections if they feel it matters.

[stephanHK]

well in the Netherland our prime minister Mark Rutte was also trying to lower the voters interest by saying it was not that important the EU elections...!!

[dwnews]

Are politicians correct to blame disinformation and foreign meddling or it this just a bad excuse to distract from the EU's problems?

[Hoxolotl]

Would be nice if the EU had an information campaign, I mean, I'm Dutch and I can't find a central list of candidates to vote for...

[tHEdANKcRUSADER]

It’s one side on Facebook, it’s none of Facebooks business what people put up or read. Facebook is a platform not a publisher they take government subsidizes 1st amendment rights apply here. The world need to be aware of things that’s are a coming

[mowbyt]

same broken record! blame Ru for everything. I stained my white shirt with coffee - it's all Moscow's fault.
Honestly, I prefer RT, or Vesti or Democracy Now to DW.
thanks for this report, it just confirms that I'm not going subscribe or waist my time on DW videos

[ficanning]

Martin is super convincing. Smells funny? Reminds me of a nerdy school ground monitor :)

[Sofus.]

It does not help to complain now it must be stopped. In my country, conscription now also includes a possible education for online security and defense

[MarCel-mldr]

hah, ye I guess you need to find someone to blame, when no one gives a fuck about organisation with budget of 1% of GDP and no real power, when their national budgets are over 40% of GDP and actually matters. You want people in Europe to feel like "Europeans", how about starting with aligning their interests by centralizing budget, then creating a body to govern it, meaning create the actual European Union, not a trade club.

[johnsmythe]

In who's opinion is the charge of disinformation valid?

[kebab]

The Kremlin doesn, t need to give EU voters reason to doubt thier leaders the EU leaders are doing that without external help

[mariendorf]

Deutsche Welle is practically an American channel. You have almost no English native speaking European staff compared to France 24. It's EU law to hire EU staff before non EU, yet DW doesn't seem to follow this. I'm tired of Americans constantly reporting on European issues on this channel. Today this, yesterday the Eurovision. Is Germany another American sate?

[BadassBikerOwns]

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