High-level International Conference on Information Integrity and Independent Media Announced to Convene Global Leaders at the 2025 Paris Peace Forum
16 September, Paris: Announced last week, a high-level international conference organised by the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) and the Forum for Information and Democracy (FID), two initiatives championed by French President Macron and supported by the French government, will bring together a broad coalition of States and actors from civil society and the private […]
Regulatory approaches and safeguarding encryption – latest insights from policy discussions on private messaging platforms
On September 11, 2025, the Partnership for Information and Democracy held the third meeting of its workstream on “Strengthening Information Integrity on Private Messaging Platforms”, led by Ukraine and Luxembourg. The discussion explored concrete policy approaches to promoting information integrity on these platforms. Towards a regulatory approach A questionnaire among States of the Partnership for […]
FID and 49 CSOs co-sign M20 Johannesburg Declaration, pushing G20 on media freedom and information integrity
The Forum on Information and Democracy has co-signed the M20 Johannesburg Declaration, joining a global coalition of 49 media and civil society organisations in urging G20 leaders to place information integrity, media freedom and journalism sustainability at the heart of the international agenda. The declaration is the result of two intensive days of deliberations at […]
Time for a new approach: A new policy brief calls for digital taxes to fund journalism
At the M20 Summit, an independent initiative focused on integrating media and information integrity into the G20 policy agenda, the Forum on Information and Democracy is releasing its new policy brief that examines the potential of digital service taxes (DSTs) to sustain quality journalism as the financial landscape of the media sector increasingly deteriorates. In […]
