马科·卢比奥于7月在马尼拉大都会帕赛市接受媒体采访。立陶宛和加拿大也面临撤出压力。据《卫报》了解，在#Disinfo2026会议召开前几天，特朗普政府向多个国家施压，要求它们撤回对这一欧洲反虚假信息领域重要会议的支持，随后加拿大、立陶宛以及欧盟外交服务部门均同意撤出。
Marco Rubio speaks to the press in Pasay, Metro Manila, in July. Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website Trump administration pressured multiple countries to withdraw their sponsorship of a leading European conference on disinformation, with Canada, Lithuania and the EU’s diplomatic service subsequently agreeing to do so, the Guardian understands.
The conference, #Disinfo2026, taking place Wednesday and Thursday, is the annual meetup of Europe’s counter-disinformation community and has drawn hundreds of researchers, journalists, technologists and policymakers to a hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania It is run by an independent Brussels non-profit, EU Disinfo Lab.
在会议召开前几天，其主要支持方——立陶宛外交部、欧盟对外行动服务（EEAS）以及加拿大全球事务部（即加拿大外交部）的标志已从会议网站上移除。
Days before the conference, the logos of its main supporters – the Lithuanian ministry of foreign affairs, the European External Action Service (EEAS) and Global Affairs Canada the country’s foreign ministry – were wiped off its website.
《卫报》获得的会议现场照片还显示，官方会议材料上印有这些机构的标志，但被白色贴纸覆盖，似乎表明它们被仓促地从会议议程中删除。一份#Disinfo2026的宣传单上，部分内容已被遮挡。
Photos of the event shared with the Guardian also show white stickers affixed over the logos of these organisations printed on official conference materials, appearing to indicate they were struck from the program in haste. A #Disinfo2026 flyer shows portions blocked out.
照片来源：《卫报》获取。包括欧洲官员在内的三名了解此事的人士证实，美国国务院曾就这些国家对会议的支持问题与多国政府进行过沟通。
Photograph: Obtained by The Guardian Three persons familiar with the matter, including European officials, confirmed that the US state department had been in touch with multiple governments over their support for the conference.
《卫报》看到的美国国务院内部文件也显示，美国官员感谢立陶宛“认真对待美国的担忧”。文件称，华盛顿方面“感激”立陶宛认为将美国描绘为外国信息威胁的讨论环节“令人谴责且令人意外”，并欢迎其决定限制参与该会议。
Internal state department documents seen by the Guardian also show US officials thanking Lithuania for “taking US concerns seriously”. The document says Washington was “grateful” Lithuania supposedly found a panel framing the US as a foreign information threat “reprehensible and surprising” and welcomed its decision to limit involvement in the conference.
这场名为“美国作为FIMI威胁：适应、承认与反击”的专题讨论会于周三举行。其中，FIMI是“外国信息操纵与干涉”（foreign information manipulation and interference）的缩写。会议探讨了在没有华盛顿支持的情况下，欧洲虚假信息社群如何重建抵御能力，这也是该会议首次似乎提出美国可能成为欧洲虚假信息行为体的观点。消息人士和内部文件显示，美国国务院明确将此次讨论会作为重点，会议共有三位美国演讲者，其中包括一名前中央情报局官员。
That panel – called “USA as a FIMI threat: adapt, acknowledge, push back”, with the acronym FIMI referring to “foreign information manipulation and interference” – took place Wednesday. It explored how Europe’s disinformation community could rebuild resilience without Washington, and is the first time the conference appears to have entertained the idea that the US could be a disinformation actor in Europe. Sources and the internal document indicate the state department was explicitly focused on this panel, which included three American speakers, among them a former CIA officer.
据一位熟悉讨论情况的人士称，其他相关文件似乎来自美国公共外交副国务卿莎拉·B·罗杰斯的办公室。
According to one person familiar with the deliberations, other communications appeared to originate from the office of Sarah B Rogers, the US undersecretary of state for public diplomacy.
尼娜·扬科维奇是一位前美国官员兼虚假信息专家。2022年，她曾短暂领导拜登政府的“虚假信息治理委员会”，该机构遭到共和党人抨击，称其是监控美国民众言论的工具。她表示，据她了解，华盛顿曾向立陶宛和加拿大施压，要求它们退出此次会议。《卫报》从法国官员处获悉，法国也收到了类似接触。
Nina Jankowicz, a former US official and disinformation expert who in 2022 briefly headed the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board, which Republicans assailed as a vehicle for policing Americans’ speech, said she understood that Washington had pressured Lithuania and Canada to withdraw from the conference. The Guardian understood from French officials that France was contacted as well.
扬科维奇表示：“这实际上意味着，美国国务院这个所谓言论自由的捍卫者，正在利用美国政府的巨大权力，试图压制美国民众对其政府的批评。”
“What this amounts to is a purported defender of free speech at the state department using the enormous power of the US government to try to pressure Americans from criticizing their government,” said Jankowicz.
立陶宛、加拿大和欧盟在声明中表示，此次会议的议程与他们关于美国在虚假信息问题中角色的官方立场不符——尽管在他们于6月撤回支持之前，该议程已经制定数月之久。
In statements, Lithuania Canada and the EU said the program of the conference did not align with their official views on the US role in disinformation – although that program had been in place for months before they withdrew their support, since June.
立陶宛外交部在一份声明中写道：“由于会议议程的多个部分与政府官方立场存在差异，立陶宛已取消对‘Disinfo 2026’的参与。”
“Lithuania has cancelled its participation in ‘Disinfo 2026’ as several parts of the conference programme differ from the official position of the Government,” Lithuania’s foreign ministry wrote in a statement.
加拿大全球事务部发言人萨曼莎·拉弗勒表示：“加拿大全球事务部会针对具体情况进行审慎评估，以决定是否参与或赞助外部活动。”
Global Affairs Canada “carefully assesses participation in, and sponsorship of, external events on a case-by-case basis,” GAC spokesperson Samantha Lafleur said.
“在几场小组讨论的议题表述发生变动后，加拿大全球事务部决定调整其参加欧盟2026年虚假信息实验室会议的相关安排。”拉弗勒补充说，加拿大官员仍将继续参加该会议。
“Following changes to the framing of several panel discussions, GAC decided to revise its participation in those sessions at the EU DisinfoLab 2026 conference.”Canadian officials are still participating in the conference, Lafleur added.
一位欧盟发言人证实，欧盟外交与安全政策服务局已决定撤回对该会议的支持，因为“主办方选择以不符合欧盟官方立场的方式表述部分讨论内容”。据《卫报》了解，欧盟官员并不认同将美国描述为虚假信息传播者的说法。
An EU spokesperson confirmed that the European External Action Service had decided to withdraw its support from the conference because “the organisers chose to frame some of the discussions in a way which does not align with the official positions held by the EU.”EU officials, the Guardian understands, did not agree with the characterisation of the US as a disinformation actor.
尽管欧盟已撤回其作为官方支持方的标识，但仍继续为该会议提供资金。
Despite withdrawing its branding as an official supporter, the EU continues to fund the conference.
在3月发布的最新关于外国信息操控与干预威胁的报告中，欧盟外交机构将俄罗斯和中国列为“威胁行为体”，但并未对美国作出任何负面提及。
In its latest report on foreign information manipulation and interference threats, published in March, the EU’s diplomatic service named Russia and China as “threat actors” without any negative reference to the US.
法国外交部一位外交消息人士称，在支持该会议方面，“我们完全没有理由改变既有的承诺”。
A diplomatic source at France’s foreign ministry said “there’s absolutely no reason for us to change our commitments” when it came to supporting the conference.
她表示：“我们坚持支持民间社会。这不仅出于原则，也是出于实际运作需要。”她还补充说，该会议是一个“实验室”，帮助欧洲制定了有关虚假信息的关键政策。
“We stick to supporting civil society. It’s not just principled, it’s operational,” she said, adding that the conference was a “laboratory” that helped Europe develop key policy around disinformation.
过去一年来，美国国务院在欧洲对言论自由和民间社会采取了日益干预主义的立场。《卫报》披露，美国国务院正向欧洲各地支持特朗普议程的组织发放数百万美元的非竞争性拨款。
The US state department has taken an increasingly interventionist posture towards free speech and civil society in Europe over the past year. The Guardian has revealed that the state department is awarding millions of dollars in non-competitive grants to organisations across the continent supportive of Trump’s agenda.
立陶宛的退出决定紧随总理明达乌加斯·辛克维奇乌斯（Mindaugas Sinkevicius）此前的表态而来。他表示，如果美国同意，立陶宛愿意为美军永久基地支付费用。而就在一天前，特朗普表示会考虑这一请求。辛克维奇乌斯称，美国长期驻军是威慑俄罗斯的关键保障。
Lithuania’s withdrawal comes just after the prime minister, Mindaugas Sinkevicius, said Lithuania would pay for a permanent US military base if the US agreed, a day after Trump said he would consider the request. Sinkevicius called a lasting American presence a critical guarantee of deterrence against Russia.
“他们是非常棒的人，所以我们当然会认真考虑此事，”美国总统周一表示。
“They are great people, so we will certainly look at it,” the US president said on Monday.
辛克维奇乌斯称，他最初是在与特朗普特使约翰·科勒（John Coale）的会面中提出这一想法，并将其称为“威慑与安全的关键性保障”。作为欧盟和北约成员国的立陶宛，与俄罗斯及其亲密盟友白俄罗斯接壤。
Sinkevicius said he first proposed the idea in a meeting with Trump’s envoy John Coale, and called it a “critically important guarantee of deterrence and security.”Lithuania, a member of the EU and Nato, borders Russia and its close ally Belarus.
美国陆军指出，自2019年以来，美国一直在该国维持一个由近1000名士兵组成的轮驻装甲营。
The US has kept a rotating armoured battalion of almost 1,000 troops in the country since 2019, the US Army has noted