Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

The Trump administration pressured multiple countries to withdraw their sponsorship of a leading European conference on disinformation, with Canada, Lithuania and the EU’s diplomatic service subsequently agreeing to do so, the Guardian understands.

The conference, #Disinfo2026, taking place Wednesday and Thursday, is the annual meetup of Europe’s counter-disinformation community and has drawn hundreds of researchers, journalists, technologists and policymakers to a hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is run by an independent Brussels non-profit, EU Disinfo Lab.

Days before the conference, the logos of its main supporters – the Lithuanian ministry of foreign affairs, the European External Action Service (EEAS) and Global Affairs Canada, the country’s foreign ministry – were wiped off its website.

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[–] 20 points 1 day ago

WTF! Our European leaders need to know they're fucked if they bend to that type of bullshit.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 day ago

    Not that they haven't already, but can they make their MO any more obvious?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    No, you don't get it. This is tactical EU appeasing to the Orange to buy time and then we'll get independent, take that Orange!!!! /s

    But really I feel horrible, I had a feeling that EU was like at least 1% more independent.

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