Poland calls social media a ‘silent ally’ of Russia
Polish Minister of Digitalization Krzysztof Gawkowski has called social platforms a “silent ally” of Russia in the digital war and threatened them with a threat.
The Minister of digitalization of Poland Krzysztof Gawkowski called social platforms “silent ally” of Russia in the digital war and threatened them with fines, the correspondent of the agency “Minsk-Novosti”.
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According to the NASK National Research Institute, the platforms responded to less than a quarter of the more than 65,000 fake accounts and disinformation reports the institute sent them in the first half of 2026.
According to Reuters, K. Gavkovsky said that there is a digital war with Russia, in which, in his opinion, there is a disinformation front. On this front, he argues, social media is "a silent ally of Russian bots and the Kremlin GRU.".
He added that platforms profit from disinformation. K. Gawkowski demanded that companies create teams of moderators speaking Polish, immediately remove botnets and reduce response time to messages.
- I made it clear that any unfulfilled state request to these platforms will entail procedures for imposing financial penalties on them, Gavkovsky said.
