DISRUPT White Paper: A Whole-of-Society Approach to Defending Democracy Against Influence Operations

The DISRUPT White Paper is the most operationally detailed whole-of-society framework for countering influence operations produced by European civil society to date. Built on Counter Disinformation Network experience across 100+ real cases, it provides a lifecycle model (Prepare → Disrupt → Mitigate) alongside six step-by-step workflows covering coordinated inauthentic behaviour, deepfakes, impersonation, sanctions circumvention, doxing, and gendered smear campaigns.

The localisation to four national contexts — Romanian, Bulgarian, Polish, and Czech — distinguishes this from most operational frameworks. Its explicit positioning as a complement to the European Democracy Shield gives it both practical and policy relevance. For civil society organisations and government agencies building operational counter-influence capacity, this is the most actionable toolkit currently available in European grey literature.