Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Policy Proposals Project
The Partnership for Countering Influence Operations (PCIO) invites policy proposals aimed at addressing unacceptable influence operations (e.g. disinformation, misrepresentation, manipulation etc.) These policy proposals could target any point at which something can reasonably be done by industry and/or government to counter influence operations. A Policy Proposals committee will review submissions, selecting a handful of proposals for further development as articles.
To submit please send a short outline of your idea—no more than one printed page in length—via this form outlining what problem your proposed policy solves, whom it targets, and how it would work. Successful applicants will be contacted and asked to prepare a longer narrative piece of 1500 words or less for publication. A small honorarium will be provided to successful applicants.
Lessons learned from other disciplines show that sometimes playing the long game is the best approach.
Disinformation is disrupting democracies. Yet responses between social media platforms lack formal coordination and investments in counter-disinformation approaches are scarce.
Training people who have influence how to wield it, perhaps through a system of licensing, could raise digital literacy and establish reasons to de-platform violators.