Update (October 7): Since this article was published, The Guardian has reported that the Trump administration urged several countries to drop their sponsorship of the #Disinfo2026 conference, with Canada, Lithuania and the EU’s diplomatic service subsequently withdrawing their support.
Europe’s premier gathering of disinformation researchers, the #Disinfo2026 conference, opened Wednesday, October 7, with some of its biggest government backers pulling their names from the sponsor list at the last minute.
The conference in Vilnius, organized by non-profit EU DisinfoLab, brings together researchers, NGOs, think tanks, public authorities and technology companies working on disinformation, and more specifically on foreign information manipulation and interference
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