Information Integrity and Public Trust
The Global Risks Forum (GRF)
Topics at Information Integrity and Public Trust: the pages in this section are listed below, each with its own scope and status.
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The Information Integrity and Public Trust topics are the eight subject dossiers of its field, among them misinformation and disinformation, institutional trust, and crisis information. Each dossier sets out how the risk develops, what is measured and in which units, the public sources and their licences, the methods, who decides and the limits of the evidence.
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Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Malinformation | Genuine information shared out of context or to cause harm, such as leaked private data. |
| Warranted trust | Trust that matches an institution's actual reliability, as distinct from blind trust or unjustified distrust. |
| Rumour tracking | Systematic collection of rumours and questions in a crisis so that responders can answer them. |
| Recommender system | Software that selects and orders content for each user based on predicted interest or engagement. |
| Deepfake | Synthetic or manipulated media that realistically depicts a person saying or doing something they did not. |
Information harms and analytical limits.
TopicEvidence, transparency and public confidence.
TopicWarnings, risk communication and trust.
TopicDigital media incentives and accountability.
TopicSynthetic media and authenticity.
TopicUncertainty and honest communication.
TopicAccess and local language needs.
TopicRights, free expression and public safeguards.
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