Brussels As a reaction to the Ukraine war, the EU Commission wants to sanction the deliberate spread of false information. In the future, the EU should be able to freeze assets and ban those responsible for traveling to the European Union, foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in the European Parliament on Tuesday. He pointed to lies that he believed were being deliberately spread by Russian state media.’
Russia is not only bombing houses and infrastructure in Ukraine, but is deliberately spreading false news among the Russian people. “They bombard their minds,” he said. “I will propose a new mechanism that will allow us to sanction these malicious disinformation actors.”
It is about preventing the manipulation of societies. He cited the state television Russia Today and the news agency Sputnik as examples. These would “manipulate and mislead the Russian people about Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.”