EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] ennof@feddit.org 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Interesting. What were Canada and the EU pressured with?

Edit: It's still being funded, apparently. Just the branding is gone.

EU officials, the Guardian understands, did not agree with the characterisation of the US as a disinformation actor.

Despite withdrawing its branding as an official supporter, the EU continues to fund the conference.

[-] Yama_core@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

Must be a top comment or part of the post - 99 % of people don’t read so far based on the other comments here

[-] maam@feddit.uk 18 points 6 days ago

We need much more accountability in the EU.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 days ago

What possible benefit is there to kowtowing to Trump?

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago

The billionaire owners are worldwide.

[-] oneser@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

The EU is in an unfortunate position coming into winter.

It remains reliant on a traditional, key ally to get through the current situation/s. Now that ally is turning up the pressure for their advantage, they need long term planning mixed with short term diplomacy (a.k.a. ass licking).

You can call the politicians that put it here what you want, but it doesn't change the situation.

[-] maam@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago

To keep fascism growing for profits.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

[-] Darkonion@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I do appreciate that they did an incredibly poor job of hastily 'removing' the countries from the displayed poster.

[-] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Little b!tch.

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago

Fascism will conquer the world.

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