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to highlight that promoters of foreign disinformation are increasingly making use of local actors, social problems and tensions and hate speech
to reiterate that local and regional authorities can in many cases identify events at an early stage and that local knowledge is often necessary to identify and carry out appropriate countermeasures, as noted also in the report of the European Parliament's Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation
to propose concrete actions to strengthen resilience to disinformation at the local and regional level
to call on national and EU authorities to provide support through funding, programmes and initiatives to help local and regional authorities in their work to counter disinformation on the ground

THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS



 notes that disinformation through foreign information manipulation and interference is currently one of the biggest challenges facing authorities at all levels and that promoters of foreign disinformation are increasingly making use of local actors, social problems and tensions and hate speech;

 welcomes the fact that this growing problem has been reflected in key strategies and the work of EU institutions and bodies; recognising this problem, commissioned a handbook on good practice in countering disinformation at local and regional level;

 believes that it is absolutely necessary for national and EU authorities to provide support through funding, programmes and initiatives to help local and regional authorities in their work to counter disinformation on the ground;

 encourages regular and structured cooperation with local and regional organisations and representatives of civil society, researchers, educators, journalists and fact-checkers; and taking action to harness funds and opportunities under EU programmes such as CERV and Horizon Europe;

 recommends, with the support of EU and national institutions, developing and launching a pilot model for systemic responses to disinformation campaigns and incidents in regions, counties and municipalities, especially those most exposed to disinformation;

 stresses the importance of strategic communication, thus building public trust as a counterweight to disinformation activities;

 strongly emphasises that media literacy and education initiatives should reach as wide an audience as possible and be implemented both in cities and in rural areas;

 calls for increasing financial support from EU and national budgets and regional and local funds given to local media and journalists to protect media pluralism and to support fact-checking organisations and media literacy initiatives, while ensuring transparency, impartiality and independence of these actors.