Be it to support journalism or for deepfake online scams, what is digital platforms' responsibility? To explore this together, join our #DemocracyDrinks for an exchange with Dr. Anya Schiffrin, senior lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and co-director of Technology Policy & Innovation Concentration.

Day: Tuesday 17 March 17:00-19:00
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Defend Democracy founder Alice Stollmeyer examines how converging foreign, domestic, and technological threats test the EU’s democratic resilience – and its policy choices.

"As social media platforms have started a terminal decline, our battle can no longer be against their content.. Yet the European Democracy Shield is fighting yesterday’s war.."

On 27 February, Defend Democracy addressed 25 eminent gentlemen on the topic of 'democracy under pressure'.

"In many EUropean countries, we are so accustomed to our democracy that we take it for granted. But we now see that it does not work that way: we really have to maintain it."

Follow The Money asked Defend Democracy about the EU Commission's 'European Centre for Democratic Resilience'.

“I doubt the Centre will acknowledge that there now is a new foreign threat actor, namely the US under the Trump regime, which is openly interfering in our democracies,” Stollmeyer explained. “Domestic disinformation campaigns, for example by Viktor Orbán’s regime”, will also likely be overlooked.

Defend Democracy joined dozens of organisations in urging the European Parliament to reject any extension of the ePrivacy derogation, also known as “Chat Control 1.0”, and to keep us safe from arbitrary snooping in our lives.

Defend Democracy joined more than 70 consumer groups in urging the EU institutions to protect consumers and society against the growing deterioration of digital services - at the cost of usefulness, consumer protections and human rights.

Find out who is your elected representative is and message, email, call or meet them to discuss Defend Democracy's concerns about hybrid threats to democracy.