As the world marks World Press Freedom Day, we are proud to publish a joint report with the @opengovpartnership.org.
It is aimed at supporting policy makers globally as they work to promote a healthy info ecosystem, while facing persistent challenges.
informationdemocracy.org/2025/05/03/h...
🇲🇷 While challenges remain, #Mauritania is making significant steps towards a more diverse and democratic information ecosystem!
The Forum and Mauritanie Perspectives co-hosted a high-level multi-actors dialogue in Nouakchott to define a national roadmap on information integrity.
Read our report👇
Yesterday, 🇧🇷 President Lula presented the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change as one of the four key priorities in the run up to COP30.
We are proud to support this work as member of the initiative's advisory group!
President Lula's speech (EN): www.gov.br/planalto/en/...
New paper alert !
🇪🇺 What if Europe built its own social media platforms, designed for democracy, and not profit?
The paper, authored by a group of researchers, calls to move beyond fixing a profit driven information structure, to build one that works in the interest of the people and democracy.
📣 The Forum on Information and Democracy is seeking your input for its upcoming policy brief on digital #taxes for funding public interest #journalism in the #digital age.
It will be directly shared with 55 member states of the Partnership for #Information and #Democracy.
Deadline: 16 May
Very proud of this paper and always a pleasure working with @yasmincurzi.com!
Will you be at #RightsCon2025? Look for us there!
We will present some of the findings of our latest report and would love to see you. We will also discuss international efforts to promote #information integrity.
#Friday - time to unpack all of the above and plan for next steps: I will be in Bern next week for a discussion on AI and the fight against disinformation hosted by Foraus - Swiss Forum on Foreign Policy before flying to @rightscon.org in Taipei (can’t wait!).
#Thursday - we published a mapping of efforts pushing for the implementation of Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) which is intended to provide better access to platforms data, strengthening transparency and accountability. You can find it here: informationdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
#Wednesday - it was quite an honor to welcome António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, together with Thibaut Bruttin and colleagues at Reporters sans frontières (@rsf.org).
©️ @robingrassi.bsky.social
#Tuesday - in the midst of the many side events, I had the great pleasure of hosting a session on AI and information integrity on climate change with @joaobrant.bsky.social, @melissafleming.bsky.social and Guilherme Canela. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e3h...
#Monday - at a critical moment for civil society organizations working on media, digital rights and internet governance, it was great to reconnect and strategize for months ahead with colleagues and partners at the AI Action Summit. Take a look at @nighatdad.bsky.social's panel here:
What a week - Quelle semaine 🧵
Bienvenue à Paris !
Last week, we published the first research synthesis of our Observatory on Information and Democracy.
Covering more than 1600 sources, it provides a unique state of the knowledge on information ecosystems.
You can find it here.
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observatory.informationdemocracy.org/reports/
Just landed in Malta to raise the importance of press freedom and information integrity for lasting peace at the #OSCE Ministerial Council. I’ll notably share some initial thoughts on the project for healthy information space we are running with the office of RFOM.
I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation
Link here:
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Summary in🧵🔽
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"Mandate interoperability, data portability, unbundling of content hosting and content curation to enable the sustainability of alternative platforms and recommender algorithms."
Our feedback to the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social is here: informationdemocracy.org/2024/11/28/t...
Could not think of a better first post here: we are joining the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change led by Brazil, the UN and UNESCO!
Congrats to all involved.
More here: www.un.org/en/climatech...
