EU diplomatic service, Canada and Lithuania pull sponsorship of disinformation conference

The EU's diplomatic service, Canada and Lithuania have withdrawn their sponsorship of #Disinfo2026, a disinformation conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Guardian and Deutsche Welle both report the withdrawals.

The Guardian reports that the Trump administration pressured several countries to pull out. It says Canada, Lithuania and the EU's diplomatic service then agreed to do so. It also reports that their logos were removed from the conference website days before the event.

Deutsche Welle cites reports of US pressure. It says the EU stated it was "uncomfortable with the framing" of some panels.

The conference runs Wednesday and Thursday at a hotel in Vilnius. The Guardian describes it as the annual meeting of Europe's counter-disinformation community. It says hundreds of researchers, journalists, technologists and policymakers are attending. An independent Brussels non-profit, EU Disinfo Lab, runs it.