The Trump administration pressured multiple countries including Canada, Lithuania, and the EU to withdraw sponsorship from #Disinfo2026, a European disinformation conference in Vilnius. The pressure reportedly focused on a panel examining the US as a foreign information threat, with internal State Department documents showing officials thanking Lithuania for limiting involvement and finding the panel concerning.
The Trump administration pressured multiple countries to withdraw sponsorship from #Disinfo2026, a European disinformation conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. Canada, Lithuania, and the EU subsequently removed their support after US State Department officials objected to a panel examining the US as a foreign disinformation actor in Europe.