Motion for a Resolution by
The Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
“The United States’ inability to detect and disrupt the interferences in the 2016 presidential election was a demonstration of how new information technologies might affect our decision-making. How should the EU and its Member States work against information warfare and ensure the stability of our democracy?”
Submitted by: Iona Lindsay (UK, Chairperson), Thea Tjolle (UK, Chairperson)
The European Youth Parliament,
- Conscious of EU’s increasing vulnerability to cyber attacks,
- Deeply disturbed by how cyber attacks have influenced European democracy, most notably in the UK, the Netherlands and Italy,
- Conscious that cyber attacks can be extremely difficult to trace and punish,
- Noting with regret the inefficient organisation of the EU’s Rapid Alert System,
- Acknowledging the importance of openly sourced and objective information in the proper functioning of a democracy,
- Alarmed by the cheap, rapid and widespread propagation of false information on social media,
- Acknowledging European law forbids European analysts from calling out or debunking propaganda involving fake news produced in European media,
- Anxious about the existence of internet bubbles created by ‘echo chamber’ algorithms that prevent user exposure to diverse content,
- Unnerved by the lack of meaningful cooperation between EU Member States, social media sites and other relevant actors to solve cyber security related problems;