Detecting and Countering Information Suppression from A Transnational Perspective

Project Details

Description

The project explores:
a) how Russia and China pursue information-suppression tactics in the EU and its partner countries (PCs) and how they construct/strategize these tactics;
b) which cases of FIMI have been the most impactful in EU countries and PCs, and how to measure the importance of future FIMI 'attacks';
c) which transnational dissemination and consumption networks have been contributing to the success of foreign information-suppression attempts within the EU;
d) the social and psychological drivers of which forms of FIMI succeed;
e) how can the existing legal, regulatory, and diplomatic frameworks in the EU (such as the GDPR or Digital Services Act) and PCs be improved to build greater resilience against such efforts;
f) opportunities and pitfalls of platform-level governance that could be improved to improve collective EU and PC defences against FIMI, in an interdisciplinary, multi-method, interconnected and multinational manner.
AcronymDE-CONSPIRATOR
StatusActive
Effective start/end date1/01/2431/12/26

Collaborative partners

  • Rīga Stradiņš University
  • Ozyegin University (lead)
  • Istituto Affari Internazionali
  • University of Groningen
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
  • White research SRL
  • Institute for Advanced Behavioral Research
  • The Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM)
  • Center for the Study of Democracy
  • Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
  • Georgia’s Reforms Associates
  • Universiteit van Amsterdam, UvA

Total Funding

  • Horizon europe: €2,999,766.25

Keywords

  • Global and transnational governance
  • international law
  • human rights
  • disinformation
  • Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

Field of Science

  • 5.6 Political science

Smart Specialization Area

  • Social sciences and humanities as fields with horizontal impact on RIS3

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