From Vision to Impact: The Story of the Forum
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Take back control of our informational spaces
What's wrong?
In the span of two decades, democratic societies have delegated part of the management of their informational spaces to private companies.
The CEOs and owners of these platforms have accumulated a level of power capable of destabilizing a state, an election, or a democratic process. A concentration of informational power unlike anything democracies have ever experienced.
In a historic shift, code has become law, stripping parliaments of their role in writing the rules meant to protect the informational space, and denying the justice system the ability to enforce them.
Journalism — a true pillar of trust in democratic societies — is one of the first collateral victims of this new reality.
Why this is a problem?
In these new spaces, lies and propaganda from authoritarian states spread faster than journalistic and scientific content. Facts have given way to rumors.
Access to reliable, pluralistic, and independent information is no longer guaranteed, even as more and more citizens get their news online. Yet access to facts remains a prerequisite for any functioning democracy. It is also essential for humanity’s ability to address the major challenges of our century.
Finally, the inaction of platforms has, in the worst cases, led to endangerment of civilian populations, ethnic clashes, and the spillover of online violence into the offline world.