Report March 2025

Submitted

The Global Disinformation Index is a not-for-profit organisation that operates on the three principles of neutrality, independence and transparency.Our vision is a world free from disinformation and its harms. Our mission is to catalyse industry and government to defund disinformation. We provide disinformation risk ratings of the world’s news media sites.

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Commitment 1

Relevant signatories participating in ad placements commit to defund the dissemination of disinformation, and improve the policies and systems which determine the eligibility of content to be monetised, the controls for monetisation and ad placement, and the data to report on the accuracy and effectiveness of controls and services around ad placements.

We signed up to the following measures of this commitment

Measure 1.6

In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?

N/A

If yes, list these implementation measures here

Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?

If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?

Crisis and Elections Response

Elections 2024

[Note: Signatories are requested to provide information relevant to their particular response to the threats and challenges they observed on their service(s). They ensure that the information below provides an accurate and complete report of their relevant actions. As operational responses to crisis/election situations can vary from service to service, an absence of information should not be considered a priori a shortfall in the way a particular service has responded. Impact metrics are accurate to the best of signatories’ abilities to measure them].

Threats observed or anticipated

GDI observed an uptick in election-related disinformation narratives during the EP elections. This rise came even as the European Commission (EC) implemented guidelines under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to mitigate systemic online risks during elections. These guidelines recommend that Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Search Engines adopt election-specific risk mitigation measures and collaborate with civil society and independent experts to assess the effectiveness of these measures through post-election reviews. In a victory for civic integrity, no substantial election interference (https://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/opinion/the-brief-a-battle-against-disinformation-was-won/)or major disinformation incidents appeared to occur in the lead-up to the elections. No party appeared to significantly benefit from electoral disinformation.

Mitigations in place

N/A