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August 24, 2026

Estonia's Presidential Election - How Domestic Grievance and Foreign Interference Are Converging

On 2 September, Estonia will kick off its presidential election process, as the 101-member Riigikogu votes indirectly to select a successor to current President Alar Karis, with a wider Electoral College stepping in should parliament fail to reach a decision.

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Press Release
July 14, 2026

A milestone for GDI’s free speech

A US federal court has stayed the immigration policy used to ban GDI CEO Clare Melford and other civil society leaders from travelling to the United States.

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Insight
May 29, 2026

Defunding Deception: Economic Disruption as a Proactive Weapon Against Information Manipulation

Information manipulation should be approached as part of a broader hybrid-threat environment. It interacts with cyber operations, political coercion, economic pressure, and the exploitation of social divisions. European institutional actors increasingly treat information manipulation operations as closely linked to cybersecurity and hybrid threats, and as tools used by both state and non-state actors for political and strategic gain.

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Policy
May 15, 2026

The EU's Democratic Resilience Funding Gap: Follow the Money

If we are serious about tackling online harms and building democratic resilience in Europe, we must follow the money. The Atlantic Council's Democracy + Tech Initiative (DTI) has published a new paper drawing on national stakeholder workshops held across multiple EU member countries, which were organised by the DTI and The Global Disinformation Index.

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Insight
April 20, 2026

Very Large Online Platforms decide what counts as systemic risk research. That's self-regulation failing.

The Digital Services Act promised researchers meaningful access to platform data to study disinformation but Very Large Online Platforms retained the power to approve or reject requests, creating a structural conflict of interest. The AI4TRUST project built detection infrastructure capable of identifying inauthentic behaviour at scale, yet found that access to the data needed to deploy it remained inconsistently granted and bureaucratically fraught.

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Insight
March 10, 2026

Milano-Cortina 2026: Three information manipulation playbooks on one global stage

Global, real-time events like the Olympic Games don’t just attract athletes and sponsors. They attract adversarial narratives and influence operators. The audience is worldwide, emotions run high, and the information environment is primed for speed, ambiguity, and viral “packaging.”

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