EU anti-‘disinfo’ effort falls apart after trying to be honest about the US

When one panel dared name Washington, Brussels and its allies fled – because it has always been about power, not truth It was supposed to be a safe space for all the Karens and institutionally-backed wine moms who spend their days policing public discourse like it’s neighborhood Block Watch fodder.

Instead, this year’s EU #Disinfo2026 confab in Lithuania turned into a bust.

What happened was basically the equivalent of a friend’s husband getting called out ahead of the confab as the neighborhood perv, prompting everyone to ghost the meetup at the last minute.

The problem? A scheduled panel called ‘USA as a FIMI threat: adapt, acknowledge, push back.’ Incidentally, ‘FIMI threat’ is one of those hip acronyms that these people are overpaid to come up with so that it sounds like they’re doing something only those with their rare expertise can wrangle.

In reality, it just means ‘foreign information manipulation and interference,’ and the average seventh grader can push back against it on social media if they want to.

Usually with memes that are a lot more savvy, and without billing taxpayers.

The meetup was organized by the Brussels-backed EU Disinfo Lab, and was apparently such a great use of EU funds that the bloc had its own sponsorship logo taken right off the promotional signage and bailed on itself.

“The organizers chose to frame some of the discussions in a way which does not align with the positions held by the EU,” said EU foreign affairs spokesman Christian Wigand.

Read more US retaliates after being labeled disinformation threat in EU – media And Lithuania couldn’t even be bothered to roll down the street in their pajamas to attend this thing.

“Lithuania has cancelled its participation in Disinfo 2026 as several parts of the conference program differ from the official position of the government,” its Foreign Ministry said .

Color me shocked that people who put an extraordinary amount of effort into corralling the masses into establishment-approved groupthink have just had a collective anaphylactic reaction to a deviation from it.

What about Canada? Surely it maintained its presence, right? Particularly since there’s a lot of talk in Canada these days about entities close to Trump, including State Department officials, getting involved in manipulation efforts to gin up incredibly long-shot independence movements in the provinces of Alberta and Quebec , with a view to gaining control of Canadian resources and then pressuring the federal government into doing what Trump wants.

So you’d think that Canada would have relished the opportunity to head over to this conference and confront Washington, knowing that its behavior would be a focus.