Enabling Parliaments to Fight Disinformation and Corruption: Toward AI-Enabled Chief Reality Officers (CRO) as Extensions to the Digital Trust Ecosystem Framework

Several institutions must typically report to parliaments, e.g., democratic and electoral institutions oversight, public accounts audits, ethical review commission, national security advisors, etc. We argue that this model of "parliament accountability" is the best institutional arrangement to Fight Disinformation and Corruption. We propose that parliaments develop innovative practices of creating an AI-Enabled "Chief Reality Officers" (CRO) as independent agency reporting to them directly. Its mandate would be to fight Disinformation and Corruption in partnership with businesses and governments, requiring constant vigilance, due diligence, and collaboration in open-source intelligence (OSINT). As a framework to help guide these new CRO capabilities, we propose an extension to ISACA's Digital Trust Ecosystem Framework (DTEF), or the "Trust Framework", which can serve as the "glue" to bind all other frameworks covering the internal, external, ecosystem, as well as the public space of organizations. A new core process should focus on corruption allegations against elected officials as the primary opportunity to first disambiguate mis-, mal-, and dis-information, and second once disambiguated to take actions directly in fighting both disinformation if it occurs AND corruption if allegations are confirmed, relying on trusted information as essential evidence to expedite due diligence functions. Ultimately, the CRO would become a guardian of integrity and coherence, preventing foreign interference in democratic processes, as well as ensuring all other institutions remain safe from disinformation and corruption.