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EEAS report on targeting LGBTIQ people by foreign threat actors - Analysis to protect human rights and diversity
Targeting LGBTIQ+ people is one tool that the Kremlin and other foreign threat actors use to manipulate the information space, in order to sow discord and weaken democracy, aiming to achieve their own political and even military objectives. The most prominent anti-LGBTIQ+ disinformation narrative, asserts that the West is trying to destroy everything that is good, normal, and moral by actively pushing ‘the LGBTIQ+ agenda.” The European External Action Service – the diplomatic service of the European Union – launched a landmark report on this issue at a conference in Brussels last Monday, 23 October. The report identifies cases of foreign information manipulation and interference, or FIMI, targeting LGBTIQ+ communities in the EU’s Eastern Partnership countries, the Western Balkans and the Southern neighbourhood. Building on these cases, interviews with stakeholders and other work the report includes recommendations to address this threat, calling for a collaborative response, basically whole-of-society approach. The goal is to protect diversity and human rights. In this episode I speak to three participants in the conference and below is a link to the report.
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/fimi-targeting-lgbtiq-people_en