East StratCom Task Force
The EU East StratCom Task Force (German: Strategic Communication Team East ) of the European External Action Service (EEAS) the EU started its work on September 1, 2015. The aim is the proactive communication of EU policies and activities and the support of non-governmental media in the countries of the " Eastern Partnership " of the EU ( Armenia , Azerbaijan , Georgia , Moldova , Ukraine and Belarus ) and beyond ( Russia ) to a To counterbalance the representation from an official Russian perspective, which dominates the media throughout the room.
The creation of the task force was initiated by the European Council . March 2015 called for “countering Russia's ongoing disinformation campaigns [...] to develop an action plan on strategic communications. The establishment of a communication team is a first step in this direction. "
The spokeswoman for the task force, Maja Kocijančič , explained to the NDR broadcast Zapp - Das Medienmagzin their tasks and objectives. The team identified around 3,200 false reports by June 2017 and discovered around 3,500 cases of disinformation "in the interests of the Kremlin " by April 2018 . In terms of staff and budget, this "fake news" department of the Foreign Service is manageable and relies primarily on a handful of volunteer informants.
Web links
- EUvsDisinfo is the flagship project of the European External Action Service's East StratCom Task Force. (German version; last accessed on June 10, 2020)
- Peter Dausend, Ulrich Ladurner, Michael Thumann: Eleven upright ones against lies. In: The time . January 19, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Neuber: "East StratCom Task Force" of the EU . Telepolis , December 30, 2016
- ↑ Claudia von Salzen : A task force against propaganda . Der Tagesspiegel, December 21, 2015
- ↑ Markus Becker: Europe competes against Putin's propaganda . Spiegel Online , October 30, 2015
- ↑ Conclusions of the European Council of 19/20 March 2015 on the website of the European Council, 20 March 2015
- ↑ Twitter profile
- ↑ Zapp: Im Kampf EU gegen Disinformation , NDR .de, online, from March 29, 2017, accessed on March 30, 2017
- ↑ tagesschau.de , June 13, 2017, Anja Bröker, Lena Kampf ( WDR ): Opinion making against money
- ↑ Christoph B. Schiltz: Now white helmets are said to have killed Syrian children . Die Welt , April 13, 2018
- ^ Peter Prantner: With "Peanuts" against Kremlin propaganda. In: orf.at. March 16, 2018, accessed April 25, 2020 .
- ^ Paul Vorreiter: Europe's fight against fake news. No messy amounts help against disinformation in: Deutschlandfunk , June 10, 2020 (last accessed on June 10, 2020)