The Macdonald-Laurier Institute is pleased to launch a new foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform, DisinfoWatch.org, with a specific focus on COVID-19. The site will track and analyze foreign disinformation narratives, examining how they align and are amplified by domestic platforms, groups and actors.
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Mozilla has come out with a timely browser extension to encourage end-users to monitor YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. Regrets Reporter (a play on the phenomenon of “YouTube Regrets”) lets users send in reports about harmful videos that were recommended to them.
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On Friday, the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development released their global report, “Balancing Act: Countering digital disinformation while respecting freedom of expression.” This research was led by Prof. Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield) and Dr. Julie Posetti (International Center for Journalists) along with international researchers and contributing authors, including former EU DisinfoLab Advocacy Officer Clara Hanot.
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Helsinki has been ranked one of the top three smart cities in the world in the Smart City Index 2020, published on 17 September. The capital of Finland is joined by Singapore and Zurich in the top three, moving up to second position from eighth place year-on-year in a time when many European cities among the 109 total cities in the ranking lost ground.
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Strasbourg, 07.09.2020 - In a joint statement issued today, the Chair of the Council of Europe’s data protection “Convention 108” committee, Alessandra Pierucci, and the Council of Europe’s Data Protection Commissioner, Jean-Philippe Walter, called on States to strengthen the protection of personal data in the context of digital surveillance carried by intelligence services, by joining the Council of Europe convention on data protection “Convention 108+” and by promoting a new international legal instrument providing democratic and effective safeguards in this field.
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