What we can achieve with a right to be informed

A right to be informed can be used to hold digital platforms to account. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

We are bombarded with more information than ever in history. It is becoming extremely hard to separate fact from nonsense. GroundUp has developed an 11-part series called The Right to be Informed.

Today we publish the fourth and fifth articles in the series.

We have argued that we need a new right: to be informed. Two reasonable questions arise. How can we suck a right out of thin air? What use is it? We try to answer these questions.

Read What we can achieve with right to be informed and How dangerous are the new technologies?

Here are the articles in the series:

1. Why we need a right to be informed (published 19 May)
2. How the world has changed (published 19 May)
3. Platforms versus publishers (published 19 May)
4. NEW: What we can achieve with a right to be informed (published 21 May)
5. NEW: How dangerous are the new technologies? (published 21 May)
6. Coming on Tuesday 27 May: Omitting to publish
7. Coming on Tuesday 27 May: How the news industry has changed
8. Coming on Tuesday 27 May: Freedom of expression
9. Coming on Thursday 29 May: The attack on science
10. Coming on Thursday 29 May: Principle of best current evidence
11. Coming on Monday 2 June: The global struggle for freedom, rights and science

More about Right to be informed

• Why we need a right to be informed 19 May 2025

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