DISINFO: EU countries have introduced censorship and closed independent media
SUMMARY
In many EU countries, after [quarantine] restrictions were introduced, so was the censorship. Independent media outlets were fined or closed if the published information that did not correspond with the official positions of the authorities.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the EU in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
No EU member state allows censorship. EU member states and institutions actively works against malign disinformation and counters claims on the pandemic that might harm the public.
See related earlier disinformation claims alleging that the European Commission implements the plan imposed by world oligarchs who cash in on the coronavirus pandemic; that the Western elites are implementing plan X through the pandemic; that the coronavirus is exaggerated to turn countries into fascist hygiene dictatorships.