Copasir, delay in contrasting disinformation and interference

(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 19 - In Italy there is "a substantial weakness in interventions to combat disinformation and the various forms of interference. A clear deficit and delay in our country with respect to commitments, tools, strategies and measures that have already been operating both in the international context ".

This is one of the points underlined by Copasir in the report to Parliament, approved today, as reported by the President of the Committee Adolfo Urso, urging "a greater commitment of our country - of all the subjects and authorities involved in various capacities - in this field even without excluding possible interventions "legislative and regulatory.

    The Report is made up of 12 chapters in all which concern the main dossiers addressed by the Committee: national security in the economic sector, the challenge of authoritarian systems to Western democracies, the vanguard of the hybrid war: the disinformation machine, propaganda, conditioning and foreign interference. , Russia's war in Ukraine and China's challenge to the West.

The Mediterranean widened national priority, the new war domains: cyberspace and aerospace, security governance, the control action implemented by the Committee and finally the last chapter with indications to Parliament.

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