Three-D Issue 32: Online harms white paper – Problems, proposed solutions, and need for evidence – MeCCSA

The Commission’s report concluded that the information crisis is systemic, and it calls for a coordinated, long-term, institutional response. There is huge uncertainty about the scale of the problem, but misinformation and disinformation appear to be growing in volume and adapting to new controls, and their impacts are having immediate and structural consequences. Clearly, other economic, social and political changes contribute to the crisis, but systemic change in the media system as a whole, including the new digital technology companies, is a significant contributing factor.