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Cloudflare v. Arcom: DNS blocking, EU sanctions, and the limits of the Digital Services Act

This blogpost, although very long, is a very simplified summary of the legal wranglings about an order placed on Cloudflare to block access to sanctioned Russian outlets for users of its DNS service in France.

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By Raquel Miguel, External Researcher at EU DisinfoLab Despite the recent measures taken by Patreon to combat QAnon-related disinformation, EU DisinfoLab has found that content linked to these theories continues to circulate and be monetised on the crowdfunding platform in Spain.
by Gary Machado Alexandre Alaphilippe, Roman Adamczyk and Antoine Grégoire Following a preliminary investigation published in 2019, the EU DisinfoLab uncovered a massive operation targeting international institutions and serving Indian interests. “Indian Chronicles” – the name we gave to this operation – resurrected dead media, dead think-tanks and NGOs.
Internet communication companies are simultaneously under pressure to tackle disinformation on their networks, as questions are raised regarding the shift to private regulatory action, in which public scrutiny is almost entirely absent.
In March 2020, we stumbled across articles from a French website called “ObservateurContinental.fr” which had spread disinformation related to COVID-19, including an article repropagating an interview with the US professor of international law Francis Boyle, who had falsely asserted without evidence that the “COVID-19 is a perfect biological weapon”.