Balancing Act: Countering Digital Disinformation While Respecting Freedom of Expression
- Corporate Author
- UNESCOBroadband Commission for Sustainable Development. Working Group on AI Capacity BuildingInternational Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- Collation
- 346 p.
- Resource Language
- English
- Year of publication
- 2020
- Topic
- Diversity / Cultural literacy / InclusivenessHuman rightsGlobalisation and social justice / International understandingSustainable development / SustainabilityMedia and information literacy / Digital citizenship
- Level of education
- Others
- Region
- Global
- Place of publication
- Geneva; Paris
This report provides stakeholders with a rich suite of sector-specific recommendations, as well as a helpful 23-point framework that can be used for assessing any particular response to disinformation in the context of freedom of expression challenges. This research will help the widest range of key actors to better understand this phenomenon, and especially the way the world is responding to it, and where the gaps are.
At the heart of this knowledge product is the need to balance responses to disinformation with respect for freedom of expression. The research shows us that this can be done.

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