 Hi, my name is Alberto Fernandes and I'm the head of the Digitalization and Democracy Program at International idea We together with the forum on information on democracy and democracy reporting international have recently published a policy brief That aims at providing a number of recommendations to private companies and to states How to protect the information environment during elections with three billion people Testing votes in 2024 It becomes fundamental to have an inter to protect the integrity of elections through safeguarding information environment we recommend doing this through for instance increasing the financial controls to political advertisement and that type of activities online to increase the collaboration of private companies with electoral management bodies to amplify correct electoral information online and to protect marginalized traditional marginalized communities online especially Woman and the LGTB community we believe these plus the older recommendations in the policy brief will help Increasing the resilience of our democracies against this information. Thank you