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How Russian Disinformation Strengthens the Far Right: Doppelganger Campaigns and the 2024 European Parliament Elections

What happens when fake news looks almost identical to the real thing? This article highlights how Russia’s Doppelganger disinformation campaigns use cloned news websites to make disinformation appear credible and familiar. Focusing on the 2024 European Parliament elections as a case study, it shows how these campaigns exploit existing concerns such as immigration, economic insecurity, and support for Ukraine to amplify divisions within Europe. More broadly, it considers how these tactics could shape future elections, influence public debate, and make collective action across the European Union and NATO more difficult.
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The New Front: Russian Disinformation and Europe’s Youth

As social media becomes the primary source of political information for younger generations, Russian disinformation campaigns increasingly exploit digital platforms to undermine trust, fuel polarization, and discourage democratic participation. By examining today’s younger generation as a strategic target of information warfare, this article explores how disinformation has evolved into a growing challenge for democratic resilience and NATO’s collective security.
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Democracy and Disinformation, Part 2: The European Case

The European Union has come to treat disinformation not as a problem of false information, but as a threat to democracy itself. In this article, Dominique Arseneau-Bruneau examines how legality, legitimacy, and speed shape the EU’s response to information confrontation and what its experience reveals about the limits of democratic defence.
Security, Trade and the Economy

Complement or Challenge to Transatlantic Security? Reassessing Europe’s Role in NATO

As Europe advances its pursuit of strategic autonomy, questions are emerging about the future of NATO and transatlantic security. Can a more independent Europe strengthen collective defence, or risk fragmentation? This article explores how alignment and coordination will shape the future of Western security.
Security, Trade and the Economy

Europe’s Rearmament and the Question of Allied Market Access

As the European Union moves to a more structured defence-industrial strategy, its new programmes are beginning to shape who gets financed to produce what, and on what terms. Canada has secured rare, privileged access to this emerging system through SAFE, but access alone does not guarantee durable industrial relevance. Are Canada, and allies, able to be meaningfully included?
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What We Do Not Account For When Legislating Against Disinformation

In recent years, there have been increased calls for the Canadian government to introduce legislation against disinformation. Tighter laws have been requested in an attempt to reduce the digital flow of deliberately false information in Canadian political discourse around controversies like vaccines, especially during elections. For one, in 2022, Canada’s chief electoral officer Stéphane Perrault Read More…
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EU-Canada: Advancing Defence Industrial Cooperation High-level Event

On October 1, 2025, the Rideau Club in Ottawa hosted the “EU-Canada – Advancing Defence Industrial Cooperation” event, organized by the Delegation of the European Union to Canada in partnership with the NATO Association of Canada (NAOC). The gathering brought together 86 participants, including representatives from government, industry, academia, and the diplomatic community, to explore Read More…
Centre For Disinformation Studies Gabriella Pickton

“Democracy Is Never A Guarantee:” Georgia’s Young Protesters on the Frontlines Against Russian Disinformation

In October 2024, the Black Sea state of Georgia held a heavily disputed parliamentary election. Foreign policy dominated pre-election discourse among parties. For both the current ruling party and the various parties making up the opposition, the future of relations with the European Union (EU), NATO, and Russia were at the center of the discussion. Read More…
Centre For Disinformation Studies Society, Culture, and Security

“The Global War Party”: Anti-Western Rhetoric in the 2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

This article was originally published as an intern contribution at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. Fear of war has long shaped Georgian domestic politics.  Conflict between Tbilisi and Russian-backed separatists in the regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) left the country fragmented following the collapse of the Soviet Union. 2008 saw Read More…