Free expression and the future of information regulation online
Fri 11 April 2025
17:00 - 17:50
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2025 is set to see the transatlantic gulf on how to regulate online speech become even wider. Regulators in the EU are demanding greater regulation of platforms than ever, but the US has made clear that free speech is a priority. With the news industry already in the thick of a period of rapid change, there’s a lot to unpack about the future of information, and how it’s regulated.
News institutions have suffered a brutal succession of cuts to journalist roles, as advertisers abandon mainstream news for social media. Content creators, podcasters, and independent news outlets will continue to grow their influence – with as yet, limited understanding of how the line between fact and opinion is presented or enforced.
And despite social media platforms moving away from promoting news or political content, audiences are increasingly heading to online platforms instead of news, for their information needs – spaces where accountability for the reliability of information is already often unclear.
This panel brings together three experts on news, free speech and online content to debate what all of this means for the future of online content moderation, free expression and our information ecosystem at large.
Moderated by Alan Rusbridger.
Sponsored by Oversight Board.
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Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.
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Palazzo dei Priori (Perugia)
Il Palazzo dei Priori, o comunale, è uno dei migliori esempi d'Italia di palazzo pubblico dell'età comunale. Sorge nella centrale Piazza IV Novembre a Perugia, in Umbria. Si estende lungo Corso Vannucci fino a via Boncambi. È ancora oggi sede di parte del Municipio e, al terzo piano, della Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria. Deve il suo nome ai Priori, la massima autorità politica al governo della città in epoca medievale.
Khaled Mansour
Khaled Mansour is a writer and communications expert and member of the Meta Oversight Board. He has extensive experience at the United Nations and as a foreign correspondent. He has worked and written on political issues, human rights, humanitarian aid, and peacekeeping. From 1990 to 1999, he worked as a journalist, and from 1999 to 2013 he worked as a UN Spokesperson and Communications Advisor/Director. In these roles, he worked in conflict and transitional situations such as in South Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Sudan in addition to his work on US politics in Washington D.C. in the 1990s and at the UN headquarters in New York. Before he became a full-time writer in 2015, he was the Executive Director of Egypt's leading human rights organization, EIPR (2013-2014). He published seven books, mostly in Arabic. His debut novel, A Minefield, and his memoirs on Afghanistan, From Taliban to Taliban, appeared in early 2022. He obtained degrees in Engineering, Archaeology, Sociology, and International Relations from universities in Egypt, South Africa and the USA. He keeps a blog at khaledmansour.org.
Alan Rusbridger
Alan Rusbridger is the editor of Prospect Magazine. Previously he was the editor-in-chief of The Guardian from 1995 to 2015 and the Principal of Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford. He also chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and sits on the Meta Oversight Board. In 2014 he received the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, the European Press Prize and the Ortega y Gasset Award in Madrid and led the Guardian to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, shared with the Washington Post.