EU Demands Sweeping Censorship To Influence Elections by @Pauline__Voss Last September, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addressed Europeans in her State of the Union speech. “The rise in information manipulation and disinformation is, as we hear, dividing our societies,” she said. “That is why we urgently need the ‘European Democracy Shield.’” But the “Democracy Shield” is, in reality, the Orwellian name for Europe’s plan to interfere in national elections by censoring mill...