Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Policy Proposals Project
The Partnership for Countering Influence Operations (PCIO) invited 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 reviewed submissions, selecting a handful of proposals for further development as articles. We thank our committee for their insightful feedback.
Social media platforms generally rely on human moderation to remove prohibited content. Yet what if moderation could happen before content is even posted?
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.