Report on the Implementation of the Action Plan Against Disinformation

The first progress report on the 2018 Action Plan, published ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections, documents what the EU achieved in its first year of systematic counter-disinformation effort and what the elections revealed about remaining vulnerabilities. The report covers East StratCom's detection and analysis activity, platform compliance with the Code of Practice, and the resilience measures deployed around the elections.

The 2019 report is significant as the first systematic EU self-assessment of counter-disinformation effectiveness. Its candour about the limitations of the early approach — particularly regarding platform compliance and the speed of detection — shaped subsequent policy evolution. For practitioners studying the development of EU counter-disinformation capacity, this document provides the first empirical baseline against which all subsequent progress can be measured.