Formats
As part of its Strengthening Resilience to Disinformation work programme, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet convened a civil society Multi-Stakeholder Group to explore ways to strengthen all-of-society resilience to disinformation in New Zealand.
The group was drawn from across New Zealand, and made recommendations about what practices and structures could be developed to better understand disinformation and address its effects.
The Multi-Stakeholder Group wrote a final report, which included a range of viewpoints, but agreed on a shared goal:
“to mitigate the harm mis- and disinformation cause and to move towards ensuring that within New Zealand, people can agree and disagree in good faith, working off a mostly shared set of facts, and that when disputes occur – especially consequential disputes—they are possible to resolve with reference to trustworthy evidence.”
Government response#
The report includes a number of recommendations on how to strengthen civil society resilience to disinformation. The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has considered each recommendation and you can read our response to the report in the letter above.
The Department thanks the Multi-Stakeholder Group’s co-chairs and members for their valuable contribution to public discussion on disinformation, and broader changes in New Zealand’s information environment. Their report is available as a resource for all New Zealanders.