It was not our intention to place responsibility for disinformation materials distributed online on the Turkish state, but to point out that disinformation remains to be a sensitive issue during the Cypriot Presidency, to which we wish every success, the Polish Embassy clarifies in a statement to CNA on Friday about a working lunch with journalists earlier this week.
“The purpose of the meeting was to present the activities and achievements of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU which took place in the first half of 2025,” the Embassy says.
The main priority of the Polish Presidency, it added, “was the security of Member States in the following areas: external, internal, economic, energy, food, health and information. We outlined the achievements of the Polish Presidency in these areas during the main part of the meeting.”
In the context of information security, the statement continues “we focused on disinformation, which is currently one of the major threats spread via the internet and social media.”
“In order to demonstrate the scale of the phenomenon, we presented a number of examples of disinformation and propaganda campaigns currently affecting Poland, the sources of which are mainly identified in Russia,” it adds.
At the same time, it says, “in order to show that disinformation is a very wide-ranging phenomenon observed practically all over the world, including in Cyprus, we presented several examples of fake news and graphics distributed via social media, concerning, among others, CYPROB.”
“It was not our intention to place responsibility for disinformation materials distributed online on the Turkish state, but to point out that disinformation remains to be a sensitive issue during the Cypriot Presidency, to which we wish every success,” the Polish Embassy concludes.