"The European Union's efforts to fight against online misinformation have come up against legal action.
Last week, three media sites in The Netherlands filed a lawsuit against an EU project aimed at curbing online misinformation. The suit claims that EUvsDisinfo erroneously labeled the publishers as “disinforming outlets” on its website, and that the project should remove those accusations from all of their publications and publish a correction, under penalty of a €20,000 fine per day the content remains online.
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Run by the European External Access Service, the project began in 2015 and describes itself as “part of a campaign to better forecast, address and respond to pro-Kremlin disinformation.” It maintains a database of more than 3,500 “disinformation cases,” ranging from blatantly false propaganda to seemingly anything published by Russia Today. EEAS is the de facto foreign service for the EU and is obviously a key player in negotiations over the Ukrainian conflict.
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2018/three-publications-are-suing-the-eu-over-fake-news-allegations/
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