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The European Lens is a new podcast from Fine Gael and EPP Group MEP Frances Fitzgerald. The podcast series explores the EU issues that currently impact the Irish public – bringing a needed and informed European perspective to a domestic audience. Frances talks to political voices at home and experts across Europe to help listeners feel closer to essential European issues playing out in Brussels and Strasbourg.
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Friday Feb 12, 2021
Disinformation and Fake News: The Threat to our Democracy in Europe
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
In the latest episode of The European Lens, Frances Fitzgerald MEP and guests discuss the issue of disinformation and fake news - what is the issue, how widespread is it and what can be done by the European Union to tackle it?
The podcast considers the effect that Russia has on the issue, recent developments in the United States, how traditional media is affected and the support that journalists and media organisations need to crack down on disinformation.
Frances Fitzgerald is joined by Mark Little, CEO of Kinzen and founder of Storyful, Peter Pomerantzev, journalist and author of This Is Not Propaganda, as well as Sandra Kalniete, a Latvian MEP and rapporteur on the new European Parliament committee on disinformation.
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