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French foreign ministry to set up 24/7 disinformation watch

The 2024 budget allocation of France's Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs provides additional funds to enable it to mount a permanent online disinformation watch and counterspeech response. [...]

Published on 21/12/2023 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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