Digital Policy Lab: Policy Digest #12

Policy Digests offer an overview of recent digital policy developments in Digital Policy Lab (DPL) member countries, including regulatory and non-regulatory initiatives aiming to combat online harms such as disinformation, hate speech, extremist or terrorist content.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) closed its consultation on the modernisation of the broadcasting system as part of the Online Streaming Act. Ireland’s new Media Commission (Coimisiún na Meán) holds public consultations on the proposed designation of video-sharing platform services (VSPS) as well as the first binding ‘Online Safety Code for VSPS’. Ofcom opened a public consultation regarding classifications of regulated platforms under the Online Safety Bill, which will require certain online services (e.g., social media sites, messaging apps and search engines) to identify risks and introduce measures to protect users from certain types of harm online. The UK’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport published the Government response to Online Advertising Programme consultation. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened an investigation into OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, to assess how it addresses risks related to its Large Language Model. The White House announced that leading AI companies made voluntary commitments to help move toward safe, secure, and transparent development of AI technology. Section 2 of the Digest presents summaries of selected analyses and commentary published by international organisations, governments, academia and civil society on the topic of climate mis- and disinformation.