Project
Information Environment Project
Assessing the State of Knowledge

The Information Environment Project builds on the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations, which worked to foster evidence-informed policymaking for the information environment. The Partnership engaged more than 1000 stakeholders and conducted meta studies and surveys to assess the state of knowledge on threats in the information environment.

report
Countering Disinformation Effectively: An Evidence-Based Policy Guide

A high-level, evidence-informed guide to some of the major proposals for how democratic governments, platforms, and others can counter disinformation.

· January 31, 2024
paper
Operational Reporting By Online Services: A Proposed Framework

Researchers, policymakers, and civil society groups need to come together to clarify among themselves and for platforms what type of information would be most helpful to protect the public interest and what framework could ensure this information is feasible for platforms to provide.

· May 18, 2023
paper
Phase-based Tactical Analysis of Online Operations

A new model for analyzing online threats could help investigators detect and disrupt malicious operations more quickly—and enable them to better share their insights and understanding with one another.

  • Ben Nimmo
  • Eric Hutchins
· March 16, 2023
paper
Evidence-Based Misinformation Interventions: Challenges and Opportunities for Measurement and Collaboration

Major social media and technology companies continue to make algorithmic, user interface, and policy changes to their products to address information integrity challenges on their platforms.

  • +3
· January 9, 2023
article
Influence Operations Researchers Want Guidance on Best Practice, But What Does That Mean?

Experts say they need established best practices in order to better counter influence operations. But first they need to agree on those practices.

· December 5, 2022