Considerations for journalists faced with information influence activities

• Does your workplace have a plan of action if it is subject to attempted information influence activities? Can you learn from others, such as communication professionals in public administration?

• Does your workplace have an action plan for hostility and threats

directed against employees? What resources are available, such as Fojo's Demokratijouren project?

• Many observers consider information influence activities a threat to democracy. How can the media better cover this development and describe to the public what is occurring?

[• The relatively new journalistic genre of fact-checking, i.e., checking whether publications or statements are false, hardly exists in Sweden, unlike most of the Western world. What are the consequences for Swedish audiences?] => while this is true in Sweden, how is the situation in your respective countries? What initiatives do exist and how are they integrated into newsroom practices? 

• Was there an instance where you should have handled publication of certain material differently, e.g., in terms of headline or image?

This may involve, e.g., showing consideration for interview subjects whose words were used in unrelated contexts, such as in information influence activities.