FYI: EC appoints 39 experts [one from ICANN] to a new high level group on fake news and online disinformation.

[farzaneh badii]

Thank you Sam. We are championing for ICANN not to become a content
regulator and ICANN staffer get appointed to EC initiative on fake news and
online disinformation. I really wonder why. Why should ICANN be even
involved with this?

Farzaneh

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Sam Lanfranco <lanfran at yorku.ca> wrote:

> FYI:
>
> The European Commission (EC) has appointed 39 experts to a new High Level
> Group (HLEG) on fake news and online disinformation.
> It comprises representatives of the civil society, social media platforms,
> news media organisations, journalists and academia.
> Professor dr. Madeleine de Cock Buning is nominated to chair the Group.
>
> The ICANN person in the HLEG  is Veni Markovski, currently ICANN's
> Vice-President for UN engagement, based in New York.
>

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Farzaneh
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