Information Integrity Solutions Papers

A perfect storm is battering information ecosystems worldwide: disinformation supercharged by AI. weak laws and policies, struggling newsrooms.

These are just some of the factors that are making it harder than ever to keep counter the lies, manipulation and divisive content flooding information spaces everywhere.

The IMS Information Integrity Solution Papers address a range of key threats to information integrity. The papers don’t pretend to offer a magic fix. Instead, they present a range of practical, experience-based solutions to some of the most urgent challenges facing information integrity today.

What connects them is the recognition that to tackle the threats facing information integrity, we need a multi-facetted approach that reflects how complex and diverse those threats are. And, more than anything, an approach based on collective and strategic action by all local, regional and global actors with a shared interest in ensuring that everyone has access to the kind of accurate, trustworthy and timely information they need in order to shape their own lives.

An introduction to information integrity and its scalable solutions

The concept of information integrity helps ensure a crucially important dual focus on reactive solutions that reduce the circulation of mis- and disinformation as well as proactive solutions that strengthen the production of reliable information, independent media and digital infrastructures that serve the public interest.

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Information integrity needs...

Good journalism

Access to accurate and reliable information in the form of public interest journalism is crucial to building better societies and economies. Independent public interest media offering accurate, relevant and timely facts, insights and analyses are a crucial antidote to dis- and misinformation and key to preserving overall information integrity.

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Alternative platforms that serve the public interest

Alternative platforms must be designed and scaled with information integrity built in from the start. That’s why IMS works to advance a human-centred digital infrastructure model: supporting platforms and shared information systems built around the public interest.

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Prebunking led by community-based coalitions

Traditional approaches to countering disinformation typically address malign narratives that have already taken hold in public discourse. This should be supplemented by efforts designed to debunk disinformation before it captures significant public agendas.

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Coalitions and alliances

Coalition building is a platform upon which the collective good is advanced. IMS has identified the factors that appear to be of significance for the ability of locally driven coalitions to emerge and thrive.

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Sustainable innovative financing

Independent media need public funds distributed as core support, which ensures financial stability, enabling media outlets to operate while they work to diversify revenues and build a financial runway for other forms of investment.

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Policy and regulation with the public interest at heart

IMS strengthens independent media and civil society to hold governments and platforms accountable. We support litigation and build civil society alliances to safeguard freedom of expression, and engage in reform efforts and support the strengthening of institutional capacities of governmental entities to align national regulation with international human rights standards.

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Safety of journalists and media freedom

Helmets, press vests and body armour can help safeguard journalists against physical harm. Meanwhile, targeted online persecution, lawfare and the subsequent mental health attacks that victims often experience are more insidious. Sustainable safety of journalists and media freedom is best achieved when all stakeholders work together locally, nationally, regionally and internationally.

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