Policy summary – Resilience instead of debunking: responding to FIMI
This public policy brief positions resilience as a systemic response to Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI), instead of fragmented, ad hoc rebuttals. FIMI is addressed as a deliberate and coordinated pattern of influence capable of undermining democratic processes and public trust, particularly during elections and crises. The document proposes a clear operational framework: mainstreaming the approach into key national policies, establishing a small coordination structure with a standard protocol for “information incidents,” ensuring safeguards for public service independence, increasing transparency of media ownership and financing, introducing rules for political online advertising, and adopting an electoral digital protocol with rapid, verifiable clarifications regarding synthetic and manipulated audio-visual content.
