The ICT4Peace Foundation welcomes the timely, important & insightful new report by ICRC on misinformation, disinformation & hate speech in contexts of armed conflict. This new report outlines significant & growing challenges for humanitarian actors in light of epistemic decay, along with the erosion of trust in democratic institutions.
The ICRC report captures key points made by ICT4Peace Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa and others at the DigitHarium event in March 2021, looking at information disorders, misinformation, disinformation & the instrumentalisation of social media to amplify violence. See our post with more details of this event here.