use your voice
If you are concerned about people being influenced by Russia, the US, and China, be it via Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, local ads, or whatever else, if you are concerned about that friend who suddenly started spouting anti-EU rhetoric from Youtube, if you’re unhappy with how the EU and member states have handled it so far, this is for you.
EU citizens can respond and it would be in our interest to do so too.
It will take 10 minutes if you’re quick, longer if you want to leave comments on each point. There are 4 points with up to 4 sub points, each comment can be 3500 characters long.
You can respond in any of the 24 European languages, so if English is not your preferred language, use your mother tongue.
If you are part of a community in your EU mother tongue, share a link to this in your mother tongue.
Here are the supported languages:
- bg български
- cs čeština
- da dansk
- de Deutsch
- el Ελληνικά
- en English
- es español
- et eesti
- fi suomi
- fr français
- ga Gaeilge
- hr hrvatski
- hu Magyar
- it Italiano
- lt lietuvių kalba
- lv latviešu valoda
- mt Malti
- nl Nederlands
- pl polski
- pt Português
- ro română
- sk slovenčina
- sl slovenščina
- sv svenska
The investment in a social democracy/ social safety it ultimately what is safeguarding Europe, because it precludes the motivations/ grievances which create surface area for misinformation to operate on. Its not that it isn’t possible, it just has a much more difficult time taking hold.
The UK is a great example of this, where they seem religiously committed to austerity as the approach for addressing most issues; this gave rise to grievance politics because, well, austerity does hurt people; grievance politics gives misinformation something to operate on (its the continents fault); brexxit happens; life gets worse; misinformation gains an even further foothold because now its premise has been validated, and there is even more grievance to operate on.
Grievance is the scar tissue which misinformation operates upon. Misinformation is the bacteria which spread and cause death, but without the wound of grievance, there is nothing to do. Creates strong mechanisms for grievances to be addressed (engaged democratic processes; responsive governance).
For now. Right-wing parties are gaining ground and it’s helped a lot by US media that’s being abused by Russia. A lot more has to be done.