The International Grand Committee on Disinformation

A comprehensive resource about the activities and the history of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation (IGC), along with an introduction to CIGI's Global Platform Governance Network.

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“It is an urgent and critical priority for legislatures and governments to ensure that the fundamental rights and safeguards of their citizens are not violated or undermined by the unchecked march of technology.”
The IGC

The International Grand Committee (IGC) is an ad hoc group of elected representatives from around the world who work across party lines and political ideologies to advance international collaboration on the regulation of social media to combat harmful content, hate speech and electoral interference online.

The IGC began in November 2018, when representatives from eight countries joined the United Kingdom’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee to discuss the spread of disinformation, the threat of “fake news,” questions of privacy and protecting individuals’ data — and what this all means for democracies around the world.

IGC meetings have included parliamentarians from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Singapore, St. Lucia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Since its initial meeting in the United Kingdom, the IGC has met in Ottawa and Dublin with future meetings to come. For further details, see the IGC timeline.