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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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By Alicia Wanless
Published on Dec 13, 2022

OECD Forum

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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