The Forum on Information and Democracy (an international organisation with high level connections) has had a working group on Infodemics, which produced a report in November 2020. It focuses on regulatory solutions and measures that could be taken by platforms, with recommendations to governments and online service providers. The start of the report outlines the origins and workings of the Forum. The steering committee of the working group is international, as were the 60 experts consulted for the report. I don't think anyone from an Information School or a library agency was included, distrubingly it seems like no international forum or agency appears to think that anyone from information science or librarianship has anything to contribute on the topic of infodemics. The report can be downloaded here: https://informationdemocracy.org/working-groups/concrete-solutions-against-the-infodemic/
Photo by Sheila Webber: early winter leaves, December 2020
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