Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield

Tabled by Cristian Terheş

… credible and effective, fact-checking organisations must uphold strict standards of political neutrality, Removed: independence from online platform providers, and methodological objectivity; Added: methodological objectivity and independence in their editorial conclusions from governments, political parties and online platform providers; calls on fact-checking organisations receiving EU funding to disclose their funding sources, methodology, conflicts of interest and correction procedures; stresses that publicly funded fact-checking organisations must not exercise regulatory or content-removal powers and that their assessments must not be used as a substitute for determinations by competent regulatory or judicial authorities; emphasises the importance of collaboration between fact-checkers, OSINT researchers, journalists, communicators and …

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE788.231