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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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