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The Impact of Disinformation on U.S. Elections: Insights From a European Perspective

As the 2024 U.S. presidential election unfolds, disinformation campaigns are once again in the spotlight. But while much attention is focused on the U.S. domestic impact, it’s equally important to understand this phenomenon from a wider perspective. Europe’s own encounters with foreign-led disinformation offer crucial lessons and comparisons that highlight the challenges faced by democratic societies globally in an era when the line between reality and AI-generated fakes is more blurry than ever. As someone deeply involved in the study of disinformation and its socio-political impacts, I draw upon experience from other countries to shed light on the dangers posed by disinformation in the current U.S. presidential elections.

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Citizen Lab

Founded by Professor Ron Deibert, The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto. It focuses on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security. The Citizen Lab uses a "mixed methods" approach to research combining practices from political science, law, computer science and area studies. The research includes: investigating digital espionage against civil society, documenting Internet filtering and other technologies and practices that impact freedom of expression online, analysing privacy, security, and information controls of popular applications, and examining transparency and accountability mechanisms relevant to the relationship between corporations and state agencies regarding personal data and other surveillance activities.