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Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

International Observatory on Information and Democracy Report

Amsterdam launch event

The AI, Media, & Democracy Lab and the research consortium “Public Values in the Algorithmic Society” (AlgoSoc) are jointly organising the report launch of the Observatory on Information & Democracy in Amsterdam. The report comes at a pivotal time for the integrity of our information and media ecosystem, challenged as it is by increasingly authoritarian forces and an explicit collaboration between Big Tech and the new Trump administration.
Date
15 April 2025
Time
14:00 -17:00
Room
Sweelinck Room

The event aims at fostering a multidisciplinary and multistakeholder dialogue about the integrity of our information ecosystem in times of troubled democracy. Participants include representatives of the OID who worked on the report, leading experts working on relevant topics at the AI, Media, & Democracy Lab and AlgoSoc, representatives of the Dutch media regulation landscape and civil society. The event will take place on an invite-only basis to ensure maximum participants’ engagement.

The event will be structured around two key themes: the structural power asymmetries between Big Tech and the press and the importance of evidence-based policymaking, as demonstrated by the OID report. The event will conclude with an open discussion on the potential of the reports’ policy recommendations to empower media organisations in the Netherlands and the EU. 

Programme 

14:15 Introduction: OID report & Lab/AlgoSoc 
14:30 Lighting session 1: Structural power asymmetries between Big Tech and news media in the digital media ecosystem
15:00 Lighting session 2: Informing evidence-based policy-making for a troubled media ecosystem
15:45 Main session: Empowering news media, evaluating policy recommendations in the Dutch context

This is an invitation-only event.