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=== Information and Democracy Initiative ===
In 2018, RSF launched the Information and Democracy Commission to introduce new guarantees for freedom of opinion and expression in the global space of information and communication. In a joint mission statement, the commission's presidents, RSF secretary-general [[Christophe Deloire]] and Nobel laureate [[Shirin Ebadi]] identified a range of factors currently threatening that freedom. This includes: political control of the media, subjugation of news and information to private interests, the growing influence of corporate actors, online mass disinformation and the erosion of quality journalism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/lettre_de_mission_id.pdf|title=Information and Democracy Commission LETTRE DE MISSION|last=Ebadi, Shirin|first=et Christophe Deloire|date=20 July 2018|website=Reporters Without Borders|access-date=18 February 2020|archive-date=18 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218175619/https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/lettre_de_mission_id.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

This Commission published the International Declaration on Information and Democracy to state principles, define objectives and propose forms of governance for the global online space for information and communication.<ref name="RSF-2019">{{Cite web|url=https://rsf.org/en/declaration|title=RSF Declaration|website=RSF|date=22 August 2019|access-date=2 March 2020|archive-date=2 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302174221/https://rsf.org/en/declaration|url-status=live}}</ref> The Declaration emphasised that corporate entities with a structural function in the global space have duties, especially as regards political and ideological neutrality, pluralism and accountability. It called for recognition of the right to information that is diverse, independent and reliable in order to form opinions freely and participate fully in the democratic debate.<ref name="RSF-2019" />

At the [[Paris Peace Forum]] in 2018, 12 countries launched a political process aimed at providing democratic guarantees for news and information and freedom of opinion, based on the principles set out in the Declaration.<ref name="RSF-2019" />