Several countries and the EU withdrew support for a disinformation conference in Vilnius in early October. Premium Times reports the US pressured the EU over a panel on the US as a foreign information manipulation threat; the pressure is not independently confirmed here.
The row concerns how Western governments handle foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), and whether the United States itself can be named as a source of it. It pits the US against European institutions and states that back disinformation research and counter-measures.
Several countries and the European Union withdrew support for a disinformation conference in Vilnius in early October, according to Le Monde. Premium Times reports that the US pressured the EU to withdraw its sponsorship over a panel titled 'USA as a FIMI threat: adapt, acknowledge, push back.'