EU Disinfolab

EU Disinfolab
Formation	2017
Founder	Gary Machado
Headquarters	Brussels, Belgium
Interests	“Fake News”, “Russian Propaganda”
Sponsored by	Luminate, Omidyar Network
Membership	•  Gary Machado •  Alexandre Alaphilippe •  Clara Hanot

Official narrative

We believe in honesty. It is crucial to expose any attempts at disrupting the proper functioning of our societies for democracy to flourish. But it is only possible to do so with transparency and access to relevant data, letting us analyse the mechanisms behind those attempts.

We believe in civil society. We cannot leave it to governments to decide whether information is true or false. Civil society needs to be empowered to lead the counter-disinformation effort, with legislation serving only to support it. Building resilience has to be done from the ground up, focusing on innovative civic initiatives.

We believe in cooperation. Effective solutions to disinformation rely on the cooperation between experts from different fields. Initiatives by journalists, NGOs or academics can play a crucial role if they are encouraged, supported and given the opportunity to collaborate. Lasting resilience can only be built with the cross-expertise inclusion of all stakeholders.

We believe in scientific integrity. All our tools and the findings we publish are based on scientific methodologies. We want all initiatives we support to be governed by the same principle and we encourage them to share, improve on and reproduce their ideas and concepts.

We believe in responsiveness. Long-term studies are highly useful, but a rapid reaction toolkit, capable of exposing and countering disinformation campaigns in real time, is necessary to effectively protect societies from malicious efforts.

 

Event Planned

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
2018 Brussels DisinfoLab	11 April 2018 08:30:00	11 April 2018 13:30:00	Belgium Brussels Euractiv	A 2018 conference set up jointly by the EU Disinfolab and the Atlantic Council

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Luminate	Pierre Omidyar's foundation for financing global media and civil society groups. It is unknown how close it coordinates with certain deep state US government agencies.
Omidyar Network	Foundation owned by the the deep state-connected billionaire Pierre Omidyar, financing preferred NGOs

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