Paper
Raluca Csernatoni, Alicia Wanless
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REQUIRED IMAGE
In The Media
Want to Protect the Information Environment? Change How It’s Studied
Data access alone isn’t enough to address disinformation—research on the information environment must be accelerated through shared engineering infrastructure.
Published on Dec 13, 2022
About the Author
Alicia Wanless
Senior Fellow, Technology and International Affairs, Director, Information Environment Project
Alicia is the director of the Information Environment Project and the author of The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality. Alicia was a technical advisor to the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder and is a founding member of its Global Cybersecurity Group.
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