AGENDA

Thematic scope

The phenomenon of disinformation in the infosphere; scale, dynamics and impact on social and public life, business and the market. The role of digital technologies, Big Tech strategies. Regulate, limit, monitor? How can disinformation be effectively countered without curtailing elementary rights and freedoms? Independent and reliable media, citizen fact checking, education. Disinformation as part of systemic cyber-aggression and hybrid warfare. Perpetrators and methods, technologies and platforms, goals and outcomes. Interference in democratic and electoral processes in the world, in Europe, in Poland. Implications for democracy and public trust. "Electoral umbrella" at the Polish presidential elections as an example of coordinated activity directed against manipulation, destabilisation and interference in the democratic process.