As Brussels builds its anti-disinformation machinery, a new book warns that Europe may be crossing the line from protecting democracy to outsourcing state censorship. A new German book poses an uncomfortable question: as Europe builds the machinery to fight disinformation, who decides where public protection ends and opinion management begins? In Der Wahrheitskomplex („The Truth Complex”), Norbert Häring frames the EU’s expanding ecosystem of fact-checking and platform governance as a troubling