{"id":65798,"date":"2023-09-28T05:49:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T10:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65798"},"modified":"2023-09-28T05:49:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T10:49:38","slug":"canada-launches-un-declaration-targeting-online-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65798","title":{"rendered":"Canada Launches UN Declaration Targeting Online ‘Disinformation’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada Launches UN Declaration Targeting Online ‘Disinformation’<\/a><\/h3>\n
Canada has launched a U.N. declaration that calls for action to protect what it calls “information integrity” and to tackle “disinformation.”<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has launched a United Nations declaration that calls for action to protect what it calls “information integrity” and to tackle “disinformation.”<\/p>\n

Ms. Joly launched the Global Declaration on Information Integrity Online jointly with Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Hanke Bruins Slot during the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 20.<\/p>\n

\u201cInformation integrity is essential to help ensure the strength of democratic processes and to protect fundamental rights,\u201d says a joint\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0by Canada and the Netherlands.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe erosion of information integrity, including the propagation of disinformation, weakens the strength of democratic engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0speech<\/a>\u00a0on Sept. 20, Ms. Joly said the declaration is a \u201cconcrete step toward establishing global norms on disinformation, misinformation, and information integrity,\u201d the National Post reported.<\/div>\n

Speaking to the U.N. on the same day, Ms. Bruins Slot said the emerging online environment makes it difficult to determine what is and what is not truthful.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day, the world is flooded with disinformation and misinformation. Rapid advances in technology\u2014particularly generative AI\u2014make it more and more difficult to tell fact from fiction,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, and South Korea are among the 30 countries that have signed the declaration.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0declaration<\/a>\u00a0promotes concepts such as respect for “the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information.”<\/div>\n
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It says signatories need to “take active steps to address misinformation and disinformation targeted at women, LGBTIQ+ persons, persons with disabilities and Indigenous Peoples.”<\/p>\n

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Canada Launches UN Declaration Targeting Online ‘Disinformation’ Canada has launched a U.N. declaration that calls for action to protect what it calls “information integrity” and to tackle “disinformation.” Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has launched a United Nations declaration that calls for action to protect what it calls “information integrity” and to tackle “disinformation.” Ms. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33942,103,1426,33941,16350,822,826],"class_list":["post-65798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-amanda-brown","tag-canada","tag-misinformation","tag-online-misinformation","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65799,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65798\/revisions\/65799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}