Addressing foreign information manipulation in the context of European regulations
| dc.contributor.author | BLEYER-SIMON, Konrad | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-25T14:29:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-25T14:29:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description | Published online: 10 June 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This policy paper analyses the regulatory obligations and institutional responsibilities that emerge within the EU legislative framework to strengthen information integrity and increase a society’s resilience to foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI). Since many attempts to deal with harmful content originating from abroad are covered by anti-disinformation policies, we will include these attempts in our investigation. The policy paper starts with a short introduction on the problem of FIMI, followed by an overview of the regulatory landscape in the EU. It looks at 1) the relevant obligations of digital platforms under the Digital Services Act, the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) and other relevant EU policies, 2) the ways in which governments of EU member states and candidate countries should implement EU regulations, 3) the role of political actors in ensuring transparency and accountability in the digital space, 4) the opportunities for news media organisations to improve resilience to FIMI within the existing regulatory framework, and finally, 5) provides some best practices within the EU, and investigates how they can be applied to the countries of the Western Balkans. Throughout the text, we will assess the situation – and provide recommendations – with a number of stakeholders in mind, such as technology companies (especially operators of very large online platforms and very large online search engines – VLOPs and VLOSEs), national governments, political actors, media organisations, as well as civil society and academia. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/92874 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute of Communication Studies | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Institute of Communication Studies | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | [Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF)] | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Policy Paper | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2025 | |
| dc.relation.uri | https://iks.edu.mk/en/research-analysis/policy-paper-addressing-foreign-information-manipulation-in-the-context-of-european-regulations/ | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.subject | FIMI | |
| dc.subject | Disinformation | |
| dc.subject | EU regulation | |
| dc.subject | Digital Services Act | |
| dc.subject | European Media Freedom Act | |
| dc.title | Addressing foreign information manipulation in the context of European regulations | |
| dc.type | Other | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| person.identifier.other | 45277 | |
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