Recommendations of the fact-checkers regarding the EU’s system for tackling disinformation
Recommendations of the fact-checkers regarding the EU’s system for tackling disinformation

Summary/Abstract: The main research problem addressed in this article is disinformation and countering it in the Eu-ropean Union. The text discusses the EU’s system for tackling disinformation. In the analysis, theauthors focused primarily on assessment, opinions and recommendations of Polish fact-checkersregarding the actions that the European Union is taking for tackling disinformation. The data col-lected in in-depth interviews allowed to identify several significant problems that reduce the ef-fectiveness of the EU’s actions. These problems include: the system’s reliance on self-regulationand “soft” solutions, the lack of a leading entity responsible for tackling disinformation that wouldcomprehensively coordinate the work of other bodies, and the deficit of the Union’s cooperationwith non-governmental organisations involved in fact-checking process.

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