Implementing policies to enhance the transparency, accountability, and plurality of information sources

This chapter provides an overview of policies to reinforce the ecosystem that promotes information integrity. It discusses policies encouraging responsibility and transparency of online and social media platforms and the imperative of countering specific risks in the information space, including foreign information manipulation and interference, the safeguarding of information integrity in times of democratic elections, and the changes introduced by generative AI to the information space. It also provides an overview of the essential role played by plural, independent, and sustainable media markets, both on- and off-line.