Slovenia Weekly: Fighting disinformation - a shared european responsibility

In Ljubljana this week, the international conference #Disinfo2025 brought together more than 600 participants from the NGO sector, the media, and public administration. The aim of the conference was to discuss the latest challenges in the field of disinformation, foreign information manipulation, and the impact these practices have on democracy and social cohesion.

Slovenia is actively engaging in the broader EU context of efforts to counter the widespread problem of false and misleading information, which countries now recognize as a strategic threat. Disinformation is not merely a technical or media issue — it undermines trust in institutions, in the media, and ultimately in the very essence of democracy. This is why the Slovenian government participates in mechanisms such as the EU Rapid Alert System and supports legislation and measures aimed at limiting the large-scale spread of falsehoods.

As State Secretary Vojko Volk emphasized in his address at #Disinfo2025, in circumstances where disinformation “attacks our values,” an everyday struggle is inevitable. Slovenia has in the past detected concrete cases of Russian influence and interference, but today the challenge is even broader: distinguishing between information, algorithms, and manipulation is no longer (only) a matter of digital literacy — it is a question of civilizational resilience. At the heart of the debate lies the question of who defines what is true — and where human reason stands in an age when algorithms shape the perceptions of the masses.