The Lifeboat News: Re: Prince Harry on commission aiming to fight "misinformation".

"Critics have been at pains to point out that [Harry's] appointment to the Aspen Institute's Commission on Information Disorder, a six-month project that will examine the "modern-day crisis of faith in key institutions", appears somewhat at odds with the Sussexes' repeated insistence that they do not look at newspapers, magazines or social media.
"Equally awkward is the fact that the Prince will be sitting alongside Kathryn Murdoch, who is married to James Murdoch, the former chairman of publisher News International, who resigned from his father Rupert Murdoch's media empire last year.
"... the move suggests the exiled Murdochs are now considered reformed characters thanks to their new-found work on democracy reform and climate change."

About the Commission

State and non-state actors are undermining trust and sowing discord in civil society and modern democratic institutions by spreading, or encouraging the sharing of, false information across traditional and non-traditional media platforms.
Government, industry, academia, and the public sector are struggling to understand the roles and responsibilities for countering malicious or otherwise harmful activities.

The Commission on Information Disorder aims to identify and prioritize the most critical sources and causes of information disorder and deliver a set of short-term actions and longer-term goals to help government, the private sector, and civil society respond to this modern-day crisis of faith in key institutions.

Through a series of expert briefings, structured conversations and roundtables, and surveys of existing research, the Commission will determine:

-- The most effective policy solutions and stakeholders to address those most damaging near-term disinformation threats

-- The lawful and ethical means by which the federal government can promote fact-based information to counter the most dangerous disinformation campaigns

-- How government, private industry, and civil society can work together in the short term to help protect underrepresented groups, and engage disaffected populations who have lost faith in evidence-based reality

-- The longer-term, more foundational challenges that will require deeper societal engagement to address

The Commission will also lay out a longer-term research, study, or action agenda for the field to undertake in the years ahead.
Throughout its work, it will also consider issues of equity and community representation when it comes both to the negative effects of disinformation as well as efforts to counter such problems.

Rather than reinventing ideas or starting from scratch, an explicit facet of the Commission’s undertaking will be to elevate and amplify the excellent work already being done inside government, academia, research centers, and the private sector on these topics, as well as to convene and connect key voices across disciplines.
Meet the commissioners and read our FAQ to learn more / The Commission on Information Disorder is a project of Aspen Digital.