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Normativity in the EU’s Approach towards Disinformation

By: Anna Kobernjuk and  Agnes Kasper  
Open Access
|May 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjes-2021-0011 | Journal eISSN: 2674-4619 | Journal ISSN: 2674-4600
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