Gawkowski, who also serves as the country's digital affairs minister, told the Sejm (lower house of parliament) on Friday that the "Safe Elections 2027" programme would monitor disinformation, attempts to undermine the electoral process and coordinated attacks on Poland’s information environment.
It will be among the tasks of a new national centre for countering disinformation, set up within his ministry at the end of September.
The body will work closely with the National Electoral Commission, sharing information on disinformation campaigns as they emerge.
It will also coordinate the efforts of the government, state agencies and security services.
Gawkowski said a similar programme in 2025 detected 24,000 cases of disinformation before that year’s elections.
They were reported to online platforms, which often failed to act on the recommendations or remove false content.
He added, however, that 16,000 accounts spreading disinformation were removed.
He said the challenge was likely to grow in 2027, because "many actors wanted to spread disinformation."
He promised full transparency so that people "would not feel their freedom of speech was under threat."
Paweł Olszewski, a deputy digital minister who heads the centre, said disinformation was a serious problem, "created mainly in Russia to divide society and sow hatred and panic."
He said the centre would mainly act as a coordination platform and hoped to involve civic groups and the media.
Foreign influence would be exposed, he said, so that the public could tell truth from falsehood.
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Source: PAP