The group gathered for its official introduction in Washington DC on Wednesday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON – Two years ago, at a virtual gathering organised by the Nobel Foundation, Dr Sheldon Himelfarb outlined the idea that the world’s leading scholars should join forces to study misinformation the way thatdocumented the global effect of carbon emissions.
The group, the International Panel on the Information Environment, has registered as a non-governmental organisation in Zurich at a time when the fight against misinformation has become increasingly mired in a broader erosion of trust in government, news organisations and other public institutions. Speaker after speaker at the meeting described an onslaught of disinformation that has become a dispiriting fact of public life across the globe and that, with the recent explosion of artificial intelligence, could soon become even worse.
On Wednesday, the panel’s researchers presented the summary of its first two studies, which reviewed 4,798 peer-reviewed publications examining misleading information on social media and aggregated the findings on the effectiveness of countermeasures to it. The panel’s inspirational model, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was founded in 1988, a time when climate change was equally contested. Its scientists, working under the auspices of the United Nations, toiled for decades before its assessments and recommendations came to be recognised as scientific consensus.
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