As she launched an informal session of EU climate ministers on Tuesday, Poland’s environment minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska claimed that misleading news concerning energy, climate, and environmental policy is flooding Europe.
Following the devastating power outage in Spain and Portugal, which sparked a flurry of conspiracy theories and misleading stories, ministers convened in Warsaw under the auspices of the Polish chair of the EU Council and brought a new example. Following the private conference, Hennig-Kloska told reporters, “We’ve seen more targeted disinformation used for political purposes in recent months, very often by our political adversaries.
Additionally, she said, there was inadvertent disinformation because of a “lack of understanding of the complexities of European law. The approach may be extended more generally, Hennig-Kloska added, using a basic example: last year, claims surfaced that Brussels intends to prohibit bacon-flavored crisps, although EU nations agreed to phase out eight smoke flavourings because to fears that they may raise the risk of cancer.
The minister said that although European nations have not yet adopted a concerted strategy to combat misinformation, the discussion had “opened the topic at the level of the Council.
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