UN launches global task force to curb “disinformation,” sparking concerns over narrative control

• In its first Global Risk Report, the United Nations (UN) identifies mis- and disinformation as major risks to its 2030 Agenda, framing unauthorized narratives as potential disruptors of its sustainable development goals.
• A task force has been launched to assess how disinformation impacts the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The focus is on shielding UN operations, not promoting open dialogue or democratic engagement.
• The report offers little in the way of protections for public discourse or media literacy, emphasizing top-down control over narratives rather than collaborative truth-seeking or transparency.
• Survey data shows strong backing from states, NGOs, corporations and civil society for centralized, multi-stakeholder approaches to managing online content during crises.
• The initiative builds on the Voluntary Code of Conduct for Information Integrity, introduced in 2023, which calls for tighter content moderation, algorithmic controls and narrative enforcement by a global coalition of public and private actors.

The United Nations (UN) has unveiled its first-ever Global Risk Report, placing “mis- and disinformation” among the gravest global threats.

Published this July, the report warns that narratives not aligned with official messaging could jeopardize the flagship initiative of the UN: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Alongside the report, the UN announced the creation of a new task force specifically designed to address how such narratives might “disrupt” its operations. Rather than fostering open dialogue or emphasizing press freedoms, the focus of this effort is squarely on managing and insulating their agenda from external influence.

The task force’s core objective is to assess the impact of mis- and disinformation on the delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It offers little detail on how this initiative will protect public interests or reinforce democratic values. Instead, it emphasizes safeguarding institutional operations from disruption.

The SDGs cover nearly every facet of global policy, from climate change and economic development to education and healthcare. This makes the UN’s push to control the narrative surrounding them particularly significant.

Moreover, survey data included in the report, collected from member states, NGOs, private sector players and civil society groups, showed overwhelming support for government-led and multi-stakeholder approaches to addressing these “information threats.” (Related: UN launching cyber ARMY to aggressively push Agenda 2030 while suppressing everything they label “disinformation.”)

However, the report stops short of endorsing more open communication, fact-checking collaboration or initiatives that would bolster public media literacy.

“This newly established task force has a single focus. Its job is to assess how so-called mis- and disinformation affect the UN’s ability to deliver on its goals,” Cindy Harper wrote in her article for Reclaim the Net. “The report does not describe how this benefits the public or strengthens democratic values. Instead, the team’s mission is about insulating UN operations from disruption, particularly as they pertain to the Sustainable Development Goals.”

In other words, the UN defines threats not in terms of public confusion or harm, but in how they interfere with its own objectives.

UN previously pushed global speech controls under the guise of “information integrity”

This launch is not the UN’s first move to shape the global flow of information.

Back in 2023, it released the Voluntary Code of Conduct for Information Integrity on Digital Platforms. This initiative was built on the UN’s existing policy brief on information integrity and was intended to guide platforms and governments in filtering harmful content online, especially during crises.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres presented the code as a tool to promote factual accuracy. But then, the document laid out a far-reaching framework for controlling online content and enforcing approved narratives. It called on a broad coalition, including governments, tech companies, media outlets and advertisers, to coordinate efforts to suppress certain types of speech.

Key recommendations include tighter algorithmic controls, restricting ad revenue for flagged content and implementing expansive fact-checking initiatives. Notably, the code emphasizes training and capacity-building, not to encourage open inquiry or debate, but to instill a uniform definition of what qualifies as unacceptable speech.

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