The public should be given the necessary tools to enhance their ability to consume media with a crit- ical eye, to check facts, and question the platforms that promote and amplify foreign disinforma- tion and false narratives that are aimed at manipulating our views and undermining the stability of our democracy and society. [...] Referring to the May 2019 European elections, Mark Galeotti, a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, warned that the Kremlin would focus on “exploiting the cam- paigns and outcomes to maximise internal dissent and to make them as acrimonious as possible.” The same can also be said of the Canadian federal election later in the year. [...] Perhaps most well-known are the “active measures” it took in the lead-up to the US presidential election in 2016, the success of which has only emboldened the Kremlin. [...] It oversees the activities of the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Infor- mationstechnik), which covers the cyber security dimension of influence operations, as well as the domestic intelligence agency of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesamt für Ver- fassungsschutz) entrusted with the monitoring and assessment of hybrid attacks. [...] Due to the fragmentation of its structure, the ministry has proven itself in the past to be relatively slow in the collection and assessment of threats.
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