Consulta a Especialistas sobre o Ambiente Global da Informação 2024 À procura de soluções
Summary
The 2024 IPIE expert consultation reveals a growing pessimism about the global information environment, with 63% of researchers expecting it to worsen. Experts identify the availability of accurate information and diversity of voices as the most critical characteristics of a healthy information environment. The owners of social media platforms, governments, and politicians are cited as the most significant threats. Generative AI is viewed with mixed sentiment: while 63% of experts fear it will amplify disinformation, harassment, and bias, 67% hope it will improve content detection and journalism. Experts advocate for free and independent media, digital literacy, and improved data access for multi-disciplinary research.
Key insights
- Experts identify the most critical elements of a healthy information environment as the availability of accurate information (cited by 65%), diversity of voices (42%), and diversity of media ownership (33%).
- There is an increasing trend of pessimism regarding the future of the information environment; 63% of respondents expect it to worsen, an increase from 54% in the previous year's consultation.
- The most significant threats to the information environment are identified as social media platform owners, followed by governments, politicians, and political parties.
- Generative AI is perceived as both a risk and an opportunity: 63% of experts believe it has already negatively impacted the global information environment, and 53% believe it will continue to do so over the next five years.
- Specific concerns regarding generative AI include its potential to increase the volume, personalization, and persuasiveness of disinformation, as well as its role in amplifying harassment and perpetuating biases.
- Despite the risks, 67% of experts are hopeful that generative AI can be used to facilitate journalism, improve intercultural and intermodal communication, enhance content detection, and increase the persuasiveness of reliable information.
- Experts from developing countries express greater concern over the negative effects of generative AI and specific platforms (such as messaging and social media apps) compared to experts from developed countries, though they are more optimistic about interventions like fact-checking and media literacy.
- To improve the information environment, 77% of experts support the existence of free and independent media, alongside digital literacy campaigns, fact-checking, and content labeling.
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- International Panel on the Information Environment (2024). Consulta a Especialistas sobre o Ambiente Global da Informação 2024 À procura de soluções. https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/643ecb10be528d2c1da863cb/673c7f3ad96e46f7838924d3_SFP2024.1%20-%20FINAL-3_PT.pdf
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- International Panel on the Information Environment. Consulta a Especialistas sobre o Ambiente Global da Informação 2024 À procura de soluções. 2024. https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/643ecb10be528d2c1da863cb/673c7f3ad96e46f7838924d3_SFP2024.1%20-%20FINAL-3_PT.pdf.
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- BibTeX
- @techreport{internationalpanelontheinformationenvironment2024consulta, author = {{International Panel on the Information Environment}}, title = {{Consulta a Especialistas sobre o Ambiente Global da Informação 2024 À procura de soluções}}, institution = {International Panel on the Information Environment}, year = {2024}, url = {https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/643ecb10be528d2c1da863cb/673c7f3ad96e46f7838924d3_SFP2024.1%20-%20FINAL-3_PT.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }
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