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<div>Agree also to reach out to Veni before going further.</div>
<div>Best,</div>
<div>Mamadou</div>
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<div>De : Michael Karanicolas <mkaranicolas@GMAIL.COM> </div>
<div>Date : 14/01/2018 21:26 (GMT+00:00) </div>
<div>À : NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU </div>
<div>Objet : Re: FYI: EC appoints 39 experts [one from ICANN] to a new high level group on fake news and online disinformation.
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<div class="PlainText">I fully agree.<br>
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Would be good to reach out to him directly and facilitate a<br>
conversation about his thoughts/intentions with the process before we<br>
make a judgment on whether his participation is a good or a bad thing.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Michael<br>
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Stephanie Perrin<br>
<stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:<br>
> Personally, I am not worried at all about Veni Markovski being the rep here,<br>
> he has been around a long time and has a great reputation. He was<br>
> originally on CPSR. I also think it is important that ICANN have<br>
> representation here, to defend against any bright ideas folks may come up<br>
> with to make ICANN the "one-stop-shopping" centre approach that some parties<br>
> have wanted/expected it to take. I do think we should invite Mr. Markovski<br>
> to brief us in the future on what is going on with this group.<br>
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> Kind regards,<br>
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> Stephanie Perrin<br>
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> On 2018-01-13 8:40 AM, Ayden Férdeline wrote:<br>
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> Hopefully they have joined to make the case for why the technical community<br>
> should not be involved in content regulation. But I fear I'm giving them too<br>
> much benefit of the doubt. There should be transparency and community<br>
> involvement in these important discussions, but sadly I know there won't be,<br>
> and all we can probably hope for is a vague blog post after the fact.<br>
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> — Ayden<br>
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> -------- Original Message --------<br>
> Subject: Re: FYI: EC appoints 39 experts [one from ICANN] to a new high<br>
> level group on fake news and online disinformation.<br>
> Local Time: 13 January 2018 2:15 PM<br>
> UTC Time: 13 January 2018 13:15<br>
> From: farzaneh.badii@GMAIL.COM<br>
> To: NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br>
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> Thank you Sam. We are championing for ICANN not to become a content<br>
> regulator and ICANN staffer get appointed to EC initiative on fake news and<br>
> online disinformation. I really wonder why. Why should ICANN be even<br>
> involved with this?<br>
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> Farzaneh<br>
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> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Sam Lanfranco <lanfran@yorku.ca> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> FYI:<br>
>><br>
>> The European Commission (EC) has appointed 39 experts to a new High Level<br>
>> Group (HLEG) on fake news and online disinformation.<br>
>> It comprises representatives of the civil society, social media platforms,<br>
>> news media organisations, journalists and academia.<br>
>> Professor dr. Madeleine de Cock Buning is nominated to chair the Group.<br>
>><br>
>> The ICANN person in the HLEG is Veni Markovski, currently ICANN's<br>
>> Vice-President for UN engagement, based in New York.<br>
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> --<br>
> Farzaneh<br>
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