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September 15, 2026

Digital Sovereignty Needs Guardians, Not Just Infrastructure: Funding Europe's Democratic Resilience

Europe has spent a decade building the world's most ambitious rulebook for digital technology, the DSA, the DMA, the AI Act, then poured billions more into digital sovereignty: chips, cloud, AI, quantum, all aimed at cutting reliance on non-EU tech providers. But rules don't enforce themselves, and infrastructure doesn't govern itself.

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Insight
September 9, 2026

If we want a better information ecosystem, focus on who controls it

The $18 billion settlement agreed by Meta on August 25th in a case brought in California with 48 state attorneys-general and others is a small but welcome start, not because of the money – which is trivial compared with Meta’s profits – but because the firm has at last pledged to introduce controls over how and when children use its platforms ...

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Insight
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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