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Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

New: The US government lobbied allies to cut ties to an anti-disinformation conference over a panel critical of Washington, sources tell me and @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social. Canada and the European Union yanked their branding. Lithuania canceled its participation. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

reuters.comUS lobbies allies to cut ties to anti-disinformation conference over panel critical of Washington, sources sayThe US State ​Department lobbied Canada and European allies to withdraw support for an anti-disinformation conference because it ‌included a panel examining Washington's role as an alleged information...

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Banda Bassotti
@orpach.neocities.org

I think I saw it here first. Various people who were there posted about it.

Maarten Schenk@mschenk.bsky.social

An example of FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) in action at the @disinfo.eu conference? Apparently someone in the U.S. did not agree with the topic of a session named "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back" and applied pressure on the sponsors...