DISRUPT White Paper: A Whole-of-Society Approach to Defending Democracy Against Influence Operations
By Saman Nazari and Lumi Sarvela
Introduces the DISRUPT toolkit: a three-phase (Prepare, Disrupt, Mitigate) whole-of-society framework for countering influence operations, built on 100+ disrupted cases and input from 50+ European organisations, arguing the gap in Europe’s defences is operational timing, not capability.
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The DISRUPT White Paper operationalises a comprehensive, whole-of-society framework for detecting and disrupting influence operations threatening European democracies. Developed with more than 50 European organisations and drawing on over 100 previously disrupted cases, it gives civil society, media and government actors standardised methods for evidence-gathering, coordinated response and harm mitigation. The approach prioritises early disruption of inauthentic behaviour and threat-actor infrastructure over content moderation, establishes a decentralised pan-European response network, and is designed to complement existing EU mechanisms such as the European Democracy Shield without requiring new regulatory harmonisation.
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