Lithuania sees itself as a nation on the front lines of the misinformation war
Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Robertas Kaunas, speaking at the GlobalFact conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, on June 17, said that resilience against misinformation is now a core part of national defense. Photo credit: Delfi/Josvydas Elinskas
Poynter Institute
Top Lithuanian military and diplomatic officials touted their nation’s “whole-of-society” approach to fighting a torrent of misinformation and disinformation attacks.
“We now treat ‘cognitive warfare’ as a real domain of conflict as real as land, sea, air, space, and cyber,” Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Robertas Kaunas told attendees at GlobalFact, the annual conference on fact-checking and misinformation that is being held in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius this year.
“The enemy’s goal is no longer to plant one lie,” he said June 17. “It is to freeze our decisions to cause panic and anger, and to break the truth that holds the free society together.”
The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission has blocked more than 1,000 internet domains and 8,000 IP addresses for violating European Union sanctions against Russia, Lithuanian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Vidmantas Verbickas told attendees.
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