The Institute for Human Rights and Media is an independent expert foundation working to protect human rights in the informational, media, and digital spheres. It focuses on fundamental freedoms: the right to information, freedom of expression, the protection of privacy, and the protection of personal rights in public debate and online communication.

The Institute conducts systematic monitoring of the media and online content, carries out information verification processes (fact-checking), identifies logical fallacies and mechanisms of communicative manipulation, and then publishes analyses and reports revealing their scale, sources, and effects. It supports individuals and entities whose rights have been violated as a result of media publications or cyber violence by providing legal assistance, conducting mediation, preparing expert opinions, and representing victims in national and international proceedings.

The Institute acts as amicus curiae, providing independent analyses in cases concerning media freedom, disinformation, and communicative responsibility. It engages in legislative consultations and the work of advisory bodies where standards for the protection of rights in digital communication, regulations on media integrity, and principles for the responsible use of information technologies are shaped.

The Institute's educational activities include the development of media literacy, the promotion of journalistic standards, research into the impact of information on social processes, and programs aimed at correcting behavior related to media and digital violence. The Institute also undertakes remedial actions toward perpetrators of communicative abuses, based on analysis of their relationship with the information environment and work with victims, witnesses, and the audience community—placing emphasis on lasting changes in social norms rather than merely the elimination of individual incidents.

The Institute operates in Poland and, to the extent necessary to pursue its statutory objectives, also beyond its borders. All activities are carried out in accordance with principles of transparency, methodological rigor, and the falsifiability of claims, with analyses based on evidence, logical coherence, and measurable social impacts.