All posts tagged "Fake News"

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  Defeating disinformation: how to create a healthier national conversation

  Bad actors are poisoning the information well from which populations drink in the democratic world. In the final part of our investigation into overseas interference in elections, Matt Ross asks

  • Posted February 11, 2024
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  Organised chaos: how Russia weaponised the culture wars

  Social divisions, conspiracy theories and populist politics are rife in the democratic world. And these are not just home-grown problems: Russia and other hostile states have deliberately stoked internal dissent,

  • Posted January 14, 2024
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  Open, inclusive, transparent: rebuilding public trust in government

  At the Global Government Summit in Singapore, civil service leaders from 16 countries met to explore five of the biggest challenges facing their countries – debating in their fifth session

  • Posted August 15, 2023
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  Indian government to establish fact-checking network; Australia’s Robodebt inquiry delayed: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Indian government working to establish network of ‘trusted fact checkers’ India’s Ministry of Electronics

  • Posted February 23, 2023
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  Social media platforms pledge to combat fake news ahead of Brazil election

  Eight social media platforms have signed individual agreements with Brazil’s Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) pledging to fight the spread of disinformation ahead of the country’s presidential election in October. Twitter,

  • Posted February 23, 2022
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  AI could scale up disinformation campaigns, researchers warn

  Hostile actors could use automation to launch highly scalable disinformation campaigns with less manpower than is currently required, researchers have warned. A new report – Truth, Lies and Automation –

  • Posted May 27, 2021
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  COVID-19: how European governments are trying to make life easier under lockdown

  On 13 March, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Europe the “epicentre” of the coronavirus pandemic. WHO’s president, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called on European countries to use aggressive measures

  • Posted March 20, 2020
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  Chain reaction: how governments are unlocking the power of blockchain

  As blockchain exits the hype cycle, says Lord Holmes of Richmond, governments are getting serious about regulating and deploying it – finding uses in public and financial services Amara’s law

  • Posted February 24, 2020
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  Impartiality under threat: a warning from former UK Cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell

  Impartiality is a cornerstone of Westminster-style civil services – but in the UK it’s under threat, Lord O’Donnell warned last month. Mia Hunt hears him explain the seven key benefits

  • Posted November 15, 2019
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  Global internet freedom falls for ninth consecutive year, watchdog finds

  Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, leading to digital authoritarianism and causing global internet freedom to decline for the ninth

  • Posted November 14, 2019
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