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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.

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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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