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Austria is losing the battle against disinformation, according to Justice Minister Alma Zadic.
With misleading and hateful content surging online, Zadic believes that public institutions simply don’t have the resources to match the output of bad actors. “We cannot compete, in particular when it comes to disinformation or conspiracy theories,” the 39-year-old Green Party minister said in an interview last month in Vienna.