Information disorder: causes, risks and remedies. – PL 02 2018

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5 June 2018 | 16:45-18:15 | GARDEN HALL | remote participation | video streaming
Consolidated programme 2018 overview

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Session teaser

The session will deal with problems arising from certain types of use of social media channels and possible remedies to address them. The purpose of the session is to shed light on the effects misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, false and fake news can have on democracy and the climate of society. Participants to the session will be invited to give input on the most pressing concerns from their point of view. Key participants will host interventions to explore possible remedies and their effects.

Keywords

  • Information disorder
  • Misinformation
  • Disinformation
  • Malinformation
  • Fake news
  • Remedies
  • Community/Alternative Narratives
  • Media literacy
  • Legal Regulation
  • Monitoring and Deletion

Format

The session will start with a 5 minute introduction which will present the state of the issue, which is followed by a 15 minute discussion with EuroDIG participants who can raise their concerns in an open mic style. Afterwards, there will be key participant interventions of 5 minutes, intermittent with 15 minutes of audience engagement, which is concluded by the key participants and the moderator.

Further reading

Recommendations by Nadia Tjahja:

Recommendations by Yrjö Länsipuro

Many of the issues that will be subject of PL 2 were aired last night at a revealing and pretty much unprecedented hearing in the U.S. Senate where 44 Senators from the Judiciary and Commerce Committees grilled Mark Zuckerberg for 4 hours, with more to come today from the House side. One of the questions that came to mind: are we now in for more government regulation of the platforms, also in the U.S.? I also noted that GDPR got favorable mentions from some Senators...

Recommendations by Livia Walpen:

Recommendations by Narine Khachatryan:

Recommendations by Charlotte Altenhoener-Dion:

People

Focal Point

  • Nadia Tjahja, Steering Committee Member (WEOG & EEG), Youth Coalition on Internet Governance

Organising Team (Org Team)

The Org Team is a group of people shaping the session. Org Teams are open and every interested individual can become a member by subscribing to the mailing list.

  • Rim Hayat Chaif, Journalist, Blogger and Human rights activist
  • Jutta Croll, Stiftung Digitale Chancen
  • Charlotte Altenhöner-Dion, Council of Europe
  • Kristina Olausson, Policy Officer, ETNO
  • Narine Khachatryan, Safer Internet Armenia
  • Livia Walpen, International Relations, Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications DETEC, Federal Office of Communications OFCOM, Switzerland 
  • Julie Mozer, Communications Officer, A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe
  • Sandro Karumidze, Director Telecom Business Development at Georgina IT Integrator UGT and Chairman of Internet Society - Georgia chapter
  • Stéphanie Matt, Media Convergence & Social Media, DG Connect, European Commission
  • Claudia Scandol, Young European Leadership, YouthDIG Fellow
  • Virginija Balciunaite, Young European Leadership, YouthDIG Fellow
  • Aamir Ullah Khan
  • Anna Keshelashvili, Board Member ISOC - Georgia, Professor of media and communications at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs
  • Menno Ettema, Council of Europe
  • Ketevan Kochladze
  • Giacomo Mazzone
  • Anastasiia Korotun
  • Ucha Seturi

Moderator & Key Participants

Please find a PDF here with the Moderator & Key Participants' biographies

  • Paolo Cesarini, DG Connect, European Commission
  • Patrick Penninckx, Head of the Information Society Department, Council of Europe
  • Ana Kakalashvili, Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information
  • Jutta Croll, Stiftung Digitale Chancen
  • Tamar Kintsurashvili, Head of Media Development Foundation, Mythbuster
  • Clara Sommier, Google

Remote Moderator

Ketevan Kochladze

Reporter

  • Adriana Minovic

Reporters are assigned by the EuroDIG secretariat in cooperation with the Geneva Internet Platform. The Reporter takes notes during the session and formulates 3 (max. 5) bullet points at the end of each session that:

  • are summarised on a slide and presented to the audience at the end of each session
  • relate to the particular session and to European Internet governance policy
  • are forward looking and propose goals and activities that can be initiated after EuroDIG (recommendations)
  • are in (rough) consensus with the audience

Current discussion, conference calls, schedules and minutes

See the discussion tab on the upper left side of this page.

  • 2 May 2018, 3pm CEST - Coordination Meeting on the Title & Scope of the session
  • 17 May 2018, 9am CEST - Coordination Meeting on Key Participants

Messages

A short summary of the session will be provided by the Reporter.

Find an independent report of the session from the Geneva Internet Platform Digital Watch Observatory at https://dig.watch/resources/information-disorder-causes-risks-and-remedies

Video record

Will be provided here after the event.

Transcript

Will be provided here after the event.