Climate disinformation, denial and greenwashing continue to undermine public understanding and slow progress towards the ecological transition. How can governments respond? What policies are already being implemented around the world, and what lessons can be drawn from these experiences?

Published on 13 October, the Forum’s new report, Mapping International Policy and Regulatory Frameworks for Climate and Environmental Information Integrity, offers the first international mapping of government efforts to address these challenges. Covering 23 countries and the European Union, it provides a practical resource for governments, civil society organizations, journalists and all stakeholders working to protect the integrity of public debate on climate and the environment.

Join us for an international discussion bringing together thought leaders, practitioners and policymakers from diverse backgrounds to explore the report’s findings, share experiences and identify concrete ways to strengthen information integrity ahead of COP31.

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Key insights from researchers, government and regulatory authorities

How AI is changing manipulation

The first half of the meeting focused on the issues at stake, looking at how AI also affects and distorts the flow of information itself through algorithmic gatekeeping, influence operations, and manipulation. It is increasingly used to sow distrust, to emphasize some views for political gain, or, as some speakers emphasized for economic gain.

• On economic gain, Aleksandra Atanasova, Reset Tech’s lead open-source intelligence (OSINT) researcher, presented Reset Tech’s latest report  “Monetized Slopaganda”, emphasizing how monetisation is financing AI-driven political clickbait and deepfakes. One issue stems from the lack of transparency on what accounts earn from platform programmes and therefore makes the financial incentives behind coordinated campaigns hard to assess. According to the report, platforms have not consistently applied their stated labelling policies. Participants argued that monetisation should be established as a systemic risk factor under the Digital Services Act.
  
• On identification of AI driven manipulation, Dr. Vera Schmitt, Professor of Information Systems at JGU Mainz, explained that it is evolving faster than the methods used to evaluate it. The phenomenon of “LLM grooming”, described as the seeding of the web with manipulated narratives that AI systems later retrieve and reproduce, makes AI systems themselves a new target for manipulation. She stressed that AI has also lowered the cost of producing realistic deepfakes and that labelling alone is not enough, and that fact-checking may not keep pace with narratives that spread before they are flagged. She argued that existing detection tools need better coordination, integration into platforms and sustainable funding, rather than new efforts starting from scratch. 

Regulatory and policy responses

The second half of the meeting focused on the current and forthcoming regulatory responses to AI-driven manipulation, with expert interventions critically analysing the European AI Act whose transparency rules for chatbots, deepfakes, and AI-generated content have taken effect since 2 August 2026, but also approaches from other legislative contexts, including Ivory Coast’s Audiovisual regulator (HACA) presenting the regional perspective of the Second Abidjan Declaration and Brazil, with its forthcoming AI bill. 

On the EU AI Act, Ayşe Gizem Yaşar, Senior AI Researcher at the École normale supérieure, shared that harmful manipulation can arise not only from false information but also from the selective presentation of accurate information. She explained that the Act addresses it through Articles 5 (prohibits certain manipulative and deceptive practices) and 50 (imposes transparency obligations) but its prohibitions may be too narrowly drawn, and a focus on high-impact capabilities may overlook risks that become systemic through widespread deployment  On article 50 specifically, with regard to rules on transparency and provenance Bruna Martins dos Santos, Policy and Advocacy Manager at WITNESS shared their position by stressing that marking AI-generated content should go beyond a binary “AI or not AI” label, be privacy-preserving by design and extend to open weight models 

In Africa, while no specific AI legislation has been adopted, the regulators are taking a proactive approach. The second Abidjan Declaration, adopted by regulators in June 2026, extends their dialogue with platforms to AI. It calls for visible labelling of AI-generated content, fair remuneration for creators and better representation of African languages in AI systems . It provides the basis for potential regulatory frameworks. Finally Brazil presented its regulatory approach, which includes a substantial body of law relevant to AI, and a main AI Bill (No. 2.338/2023) which is still under consideration. The bill regulates AI systems rather than content moderation, and includes remuneration and opt-out rights for rights holders as well as transparency obligations 

Next steps

The fourth meeting will take place on 2 December 2026. The Forum will present recommendations on harmful manipulation, drawing on the replies to its questionnaire submitted by States of the Partnership on Information and Democracy. A dedicated session testing the final recommendations will also be held at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in December.

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Disinformation continues to represent a top global threat and with AI further harming access to reliable information while eroding the visibility, and by extension, the viability of quality journalism. As stated by the High Level Panel on Public Interest media a year ago,  it is more urgent than ever to recognise the social and economic value of public interest media and properly invest in it like the public good it is. 

Paris, 25 September 2026. Ahead of World News Day on 28 September, the Forum on Information and Democracy (FID), in partnership with the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM), has released a short video renewing the call for governments and policymakers to invest in public interest media.

One year ago, the High-Level Panel on Public Interest Media, which was convened by FID and comprising 11 leading economists, including three Nobel Prizes, published a landmark statement making the economic case for such investment. The statement was picked up by over 80 media outlets and helped shape World News Day‘s call to action.

Twelve months on, the situation has not improved. Financial pressure on newsrooms continues to intensify, while the rapid growth of AI is reshaping the information ecosystem faster than public interest safeguards can keep pace. Google’s AI Overviews are reducing referral traffic to news publishers, and the introduction of advertising within AI chatbots threatens to divert further revenue away from journalism. Meanwhile, the cost of inaction is measurable: disinformation is estimated to cost the global economy $417 billion a year, with Russia alone spending an estimated $1.85 billion annually on foreign propaganda.

Drawing on the High-Level Panel’s statement and the recent Value of News report by UNESCO, DW Akademie and IFPIM, the video was developed as part of the World News Days 2026 campaign and the urgency to amplify the sharing of the value of trusted journalism and information integrity. It is a direct call to action directed at governments and policymakers, and is intended to raise awareness among a wider public.

The video is available with subtitles in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

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On 16 September 2026, the Forum on Information and Democracy held the eighth overall and the third annual meeting of the Workstream on Information Integrity on Climate Change & Other Environmental Issues, co-chaired by Brazil and Armenia. 

This meeting offered insights about the FID’s mapping exercise to assess countries’ regulatory and policy frameworks to promote climate and environmental information integrity. It also enabled a deep dive into specific countries’ practices notably by Poland, Canada and France as well as civil society efforts regarding advertising transparency. 

Insights from States policy frameworks

Participants discussed the first results of a mapping that investigates the platform, media, climate and greenwashing regulations as well as policies for institutional communication, literacy and the fight against disinformation. The findings highlight that while approaches to provide access to climate information and promote literacy are wide-spread, regulation of platforms and greenwashing still need to be further adapted to the challenges. A variety of stakeholders are involved in countries’ responses including ministries of environment and regulatory authorities. Protecting and supporting environmental journalism remains a blindspot whereas cooperation with civil society and researchers is an important part of countries’ responses. 

Good practice examples

The second part of the session enabled participants to deep dive into specific approaches implemented by countries. This included a presentation of Environment and Climate Change Canada’s departmental counter-disinformation strategy which has an important focus on prevention. The Ministry of Climate and Environment in Poland presented the wide-ranging activities of the Climate and Environmental Disinformation Prevention Unit working notably with civil society and journalists. France presented its approach both at the international level as well as at the national level including the foreseen national action plan for access to information on climate and the environment. The Conscious Advertising Network explained the objectives of the forthcoming Charter for Accountable Climate Advertising which aims to transform the sector to demonetise disinformation. 

Next steps

Ahead of COP17 in Armenia and COP31 in Türkiye, FID will publish the first international mapping exercise providing a state of the art and inspiring practices to support countries in their implementation. The report’s findings will be discussed at COP31. COP31 will also feature important negotiations on the ACE framework, the only negotiation item on the COP31 agenda that currently directly deals with information integrity and to which the report contributes.

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The report will look at how the creator economy is reshaping the information ecosystem: the competitive and financial pressures it places on traditional media, the spectrum of actors – from independent journalists to entertainment-driven influencers, the strategies newsrooms are adopting to compete or collaborate with creators, and the policy frameworks that could help news content creators become allies of information integrity.

We welcome contributions from researchers, journalists, media organizations, platforms, policymakers, and content creators themselves, including:

• Reports, studies, or data on the creator economy’s impact on news media business models and audience behavior
• Analysis or case studies on news content creators’ editorial practices, self-regulation, or professional norms
• Examples of media-creator partnerships, transformation strategies, or creator studios
• Existing or proposed legislation that may directly or indirectly shape the creator-public interest journalism relationship
• Papers or proposals on recognition, labelling, remuneration, or copyright frameworks relevant to news content creators
• Any other relevant articles, papers, or documents that could inform the report

If you would like to share materials, or would simply like to schedule a discussion to talk through your perspective or ongoing work on this topic, please get in touch at egruden@informationdemocracy.org 

Deadline for contributions: 31 August 2026

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