The European Parliament’s Special Committee on the Covid-19 Pandemic (COVI) held a hearing, on Monday 30 January, on the impact of disinformation on democracy during the pandemic. The experts warned about ineffective health communication, but above all about the willingness of foreign actors to interfere.
An information war
“In every crisis, you have foreign powers, especially Russia and China, interfering in political debates whose aim is to destabilise our democracies”, recalled...