The director of Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Department of Public Policy Analysis (FGV DAPP), Professor Marco Ruediger, participated in the fifth Gathering of the ParlAmericas Open Parliament Network on Friday, March 19. He gave a talk about disinformation and its most important manifestations, based on a vision of international best practices to mitigate its impacts.

The event provided a forum for discussion by parliamentarians, parliamentary officials and representatives of civil society in the Americas and the Caribbean about the tactics and strategies used to disseminate disinformation today, as well as recommendations on concrete actions and important considerations to guide lawmakers’ efforts to combat this phenomenon.

The debate was opened by Chilean federal representative Javier Macaya, who is the vice president of the ParlAmericas Open Parliament Network, and Senator Rosa Gálvez of Canada, who is the vice president of ParlAmericas’ Parliamentary Network on Climate Change for North America. The director of FGV DAPP introduced the event, which featured five working groups that discussed not just disinformation, but also data protection, electoral integrity, how to harness the media and ethical issues involved with algorithms.