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"Media outlets and online platforms should enhance their professionalism and social responsibility, including potentially by adopting codes of conduct and fact-checking systems, and putting in place self-regulatory systems or participating in any existing systems, to enforce them."

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UN (OHCHR), OAS, ACHPR, OSCE: Joint Declaration on Media Independence and Diversity in the Digital Age, para. 7.b

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Joint Declaration on Media Independence and Diversity in the Digital Age

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To address disinformation online, self-regulation by internet intermediaries and positive measures, including independent fact-checking, public education, and media literacy campaigns, could be prioritized over criminalisation.