— 🇺🇸/🇪🇺 The United States pressured several allies to distance themselves from the #Disinfo2026 conference in Vilnius after organizers included a panel examining whether Washington itself could constitute a foreign information manipulation threat to Europe.

Lithuania and Canada reduced their involvement, while the EU’s diplomatic service disappeared from the list of supporters. The State Department objected to describing the US as a FIMI threat, arguing that the term is normally associated with hostile influence operations.

The dispute comes despite documented US-linked information campaigns abroad, including a covert social-media network that Meta said was connected to individuals associated with the US military. The episode raises a broader question over whether Western counter-disinformation standards are applied consistently to allies and adversaries.

Read the full story here.

@interbellumnews