By Carolina Martínez Elebi, associate researcher at OBSERVACOM. The implementation of tools like AI Overviews and AI Mode in Google Search—two chatbots that answer search engine users’ questions—is tr...

The search giant has told several small news outlets that it will not honour an agreement that was to expire in 2027, as it reconsiders how it pays for content.

This report presents the final findings of the HEAT project, which investigated climate-related misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MDM) across Germany, France, and the Netherlands.

On June 3, 2025, the Partnership for Information and Democracy held the second meeting of its workstream on “Strengthening Information Integrity on Private Messaging Platforms”, led by Ukraine and Lux...

Synthesis Report - Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review

Media Pluralism in Lebanon: Between Political Influence and the Promise of Reform

Le volume de contenus nocifs, y compris haineux, a augmenté sur les plateformes de Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads...) aux Etats-Unis depuis que l'entreprise y a cessé ses activités de fact-checkin...

On the occasion of World Environment Day, the Forum on Information and Democracy joins its partners in calling for decisive action to promote and protect information integrity on climate change […]

UCD’s Prof Susan Leavy and colleagues make the case for an indigenous social media ecosystem in Europe to counter the dominance of US Big Tech.

On the occasion of the second edition of the Yerevan Dialogue, the Forum on Information and Democracy and the Armenian government organised a series of discussions on information integrity. While […]

Context In February 2025 the International Partnership for Information and Democracy launched a workstream on Strengthening information integrity on climate change and other environmental issues under...

The Forum on Information and Democracy held the first meeting of its workstream on strengthening information integrity on climate and environmental issues on 17 April 2025, under the co-presidency of ...

The Forum on Information and Democracy and its partners in three West African countries are publishing recommendations to ensure that Artificial Intelligence serves the public good and the integrity o...

On World Press Freedom Day, the Forum on Information and Democracy (FID) and the Open Government Partnership (OGP) are calling for the implementation of critical reforms to enhance media freedom […]

Following the country’s endorsement of the International Partnership for Information and Democracy, the Forum and Mauritanie Perspectives, a public policy think tank, co-hosted a high-level multi-acto...

La iniciativa de reforma en Ley en Materia de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión, discutida en comisiones en el Senado, otorga a la Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones la facultad d...

Private messaging platforms represent one of the most important communication tools among users, while simultaneously emerging as a key medium in the dissemination of political propaganda and disinfor...

TikTok becomes the latest social app to implement crowd-sourced fact-checking.

On Tuesday, 15 April 2025, the Observatory on Information and Democracy (OID), in partnership with the AI, Media & Democracy Lab (AIMDL) and the AlgoSoc research consortium, hosted an event at the Ins...

In a shifting moment for tech governance, the Forum on Information and Democracy is publishing a position paper authored  by a group of researchers calling for Europe to seize a unique opportunity to ...

In light of the alarming financial crisis currently facing the media industry, the Forum on Information and Democracy is calling on its community to contribute to the development of a […]

As the Summit for AI Action opens this Thursday, February 6, in Paris, the Forum on Information and Democracy reiterates the urgent need to establish regulatory frameworks to ensure that […]

Reports Global synthesis Global assessment report Global Assessment Reports provide a periodical global comprehensive synthesis of state-of-the-art research at the nexus of information and democracy. ...