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Multilateral Efforts on Information Integrity: Why a Clear Definition Is Needed
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Multilateral Efforts on Information Integrity: Why a Clear Definition Is Needed

How existing conceptualizations of the term “information integrity” fall short and how information integrity can achieve conceptual goodness.

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By Kamya Yadav, Alicia Wanless, Samantha Lai
Published on Jan 10, 2026
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The Technology and International Affairs Program develops insights to address the governance challenges and large-scale risks of new technologies. Our experts identify actionable best practices and incentives for industry and government leaders on artificial intelligence, cyber threats, cloud security, countering influence operations, reducing the risk of biotechnologies, and ensuring global digital inclusion.

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Carnegie’s Information Environment Project is a multistakeholder effort to help policymakers understand the information environment, think through the impact of efforts to govern it, and identify promising interventions to foster democracy.

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Kamya Yadav

Former Research Analyst, Technology and International Affairs

Kamya Yadav is a research analyst in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Kamya is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, where she researches gender, representation, and technology in the context of developmental political economy, with a regional focus on South Asia.

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.


Samantha Lai

Former Senior Research Analyst, Technology and International Affairs

Samantha Lai was a senior research analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Information Environment Project.

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Kamya Yadav
Former Research Analyst, Technology and International Affairs
Alicia Wanless
Senior Fellow, Technology and International Affairs, Director, Information Environment Project
Alicia Wanless
Samantha Lai
Former Senior Research Analyst, Technology and International Affairs
Samantha Lai
Technology

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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