Disinformation in the European Union

Disinformation in the European Union: Using systems thinking to assess the impact of current policies to reduce the spread and production of disinformation

van Krimpen, Floris (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management)

de Vries, Gerdien (mentor)
de Bruijn, Hans (graduation committee)
van Daalen, Els (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Engineering and Policy Analysis

2019-09-30

Disinformation is a problem that has become more relevant over the past years. Also the European Union tried and is trying to deal with this problem by introducing multiple policy actions. However, the impact and usefulness of these policies is not clear. This thesis uses a combination of stakeholder analysis, interviews and systems thinking to assess the impact of current policies the reduce the spread and production of disinformation. This assessment serves to further improve current and future policy actions. Results from the analysis indicate that current policy actions are not focused on the root causes of the production and spread, and can be improved, among other things, by introducing regulation, making policies more goal-oriented and being more clear about policies in terms of content.

Disinformation
Systems thinking
European Union

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Student theses

master thesis

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