PL 2: Information disorder: causes, risks and remedies.
- All human rights are impacted by the phenomena that we face on the Internet now, the so-called information disorder, which is much wider than just fake news. These are misinformation, mal information and disinformation.
- The cause why disinformation is created, promoted and amplified is an intention to cause harm to our democracies.
- In order to find effective remedy, we need to have in mind why disinformation is created in the first place. Even though many states are trying to use regulation as remedy, we need to avoid regulation that would undermine the very freedom of expression.
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Propaganda has to be differentiated from fake new, disinformation and similar phenomena, since it has different nature and requires different treatment.
- Civil society, it is known, is serving in the fundamental promotion of democratic values and in that process today they are commonly using social media for their work. It was presented that the use of social media for civic engagement has the potential to preventively counteract tendencies to radicalisation.
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1st July 2019 at 9:56 pm
Link to be included: “Guidelines to respect, protect and fulfil the rights of the child in the digital environment: https://www.childrens-rights.digital/hintergrund/index.cfm/topic.280/key.1568
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1st July 2019 at 9:54 pm
The 3rd message agreed upon is the session needs to be added a follows:
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1st July 2019 at 9:53 pm
To Michael Oghia: We use the term children in the sense of the UN Convention on the Rights of the child meaning young persons up to the age of 18.
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1st July 2019 at 9:51 pm
This is a message from the YouthDIG brought into the session, the message was adopted slightly different as follows:
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1st July 2019 at 5:16 pm
We also mentioned the role of self-certification, and the “establishment of global good practice” to which suppliers should live up to.
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1st July 2019 at 5:15 pm
Open door.
And if you want to keep thi sparagraph, maybe limit it to “Policymakers need to develop long-term strategies to address existing challenges, such as but not limited to, inequalities, the digital divide, and the impact of digitalisation on jobs.”
And at “upcoming/future” challenges. If policymakers only focus on what exists today they will also be running behind!
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1st July 2019 at 5:13 pm
THis should be the third paragraph
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1st July 2019 at 5:10 pm
1 – insert: In this time of rapid evolution of technologies and market uptake, regulation cannot keep up with the pace of change.
Make this the second paragraph – this is the key message.
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1st July 2019 at 5:07 pm
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being informed by standards, labels, and self-certification that is enforced by third parties
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1st July 2019 at 5:06 pm
[certifications ]
standaridsation setting processes and lengthy and expensive certifications
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