107 Joe McNamee: Disinformation is not freedom of speech

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Joe McNamee on digital rights and disinformation in the EU context.

We sat down with Joe McNamee , senior policy expert at the EU DisinfoLab , who was previously leading the European Digital Rights network. The topic of the discussion? Everything from digital rights to fighting disinformation, the current EU political climate and more. How does transparency come in to play when addressing the digital rights and countering disinformation, why the current EU situation does not bode well for guardrails in both fields and what can we do about it? Transcript of the episode: Expand the transcript 00:00:02 Domen Savič / Državljan D Welcome, it’s the 11th of February 2025, but you’re listening to this episode of Citizen D Podcast on the 15th of February same year. With us today is Joe McNamee, a senior policy expert at the EU Disinfo lab who’s been working on topics related to Internet regulation for over 20 years. From 2009 to 2018, he led European digital rights, so-called Adri, the Association of Digital civil Rights organizations in Europe, working on major topics such as adoption of the general Data Protection Regulation and the Copyright Directive. So welcome Joe, welcome to the show. 00:00:43 Joe McNamee Thank you. 00:00:45 Domen…

People in this episode

Host: Domen Savič

Guest: Joe McNamee

Topics covered

• disinformation
• digital rights
• EU political climate
• transparency
• Internet regulation

Keywords

• disinformation
• digital rights
• EU policy
• transparency
• Internet regulation
• data protection
• Copyright Directive

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EU DisinfoLab, European Digital Rights, Adri

Places: EU

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