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The following is the Jan. 26, 2023, Government Accountability Office report, Contested Information Environment: Actions Needed to Strengthen Education and Training for DOD Leaders. From the report What GAO Found Department of Defense (DOD) guidance for operating in a contested information environment continues to evolve as DOD works to develop and prepare leaders to make […]

And political mind—sets on the ground in tigray, through social media, through twitter, and other platforms that may be very powerful in ethiopia. and i notice, youre not even on social media. no, im not. no. doesnt that make you a bit of an information dinosaur? yes, probably! well, you can laugh, but youre a journalist. yes. you care about the information environment in which you work. cos this is the reality of today. do you spend your whole time on twitter? i dont spend my whole time... do...

Any friends or interests and they followed some center right, center left ush use. all they did is click on content facebook gave it. follow groups facebook suggested. in two weeks, twhent from, you know, center topics like fox news to white genocide just by clicking on the content. the algorithm pushed them in a more extreme direction. our information environment does have consequences. >> we compartmentalize tv and radio. this is much harder to compartmentalize. >> it is also a question of whe...

Simple example. if youre living in tigray province at the moment and you want to know whats actually happening on the ground, you would not listen to addis ababa. youd listen to the bbc cos you know the bbc would be trying to tell you, as well as it could, the truth as it saw it on the ground. thats a very interesting example cos, actually, if you really wanted to know what was going on on the ground in tigray, youd probably be best advised to follow all sorts of different people with different ...

Listen to addis ababa. youd listen to the bbc because you know the bbc would be trying to tell you, as well as it could, the truth as it saw it on the ground. thats a very interesting example, actually, if you really wanted to know what was going on on the ground in tigray, youd probably be best advised to follow all sorts of different people with different inclinations and political mind—sets on the ground in tigray, through social media, through twitter, and other platforms that may be very ...

Directing private companies how to execute their initiatives? >> are not directing private social media companies on how to manage the content for these are decisions they have to make. we obviously do not want to see the public square polluted with hate speech and disinformation. that is not a good use of the information environment for the american people. but it is up to the social media companies to determine how theyre going to manage their contents. how theyre going to deliver that content...

Academics and policymakers need a new CERN-like central facility to study the swirl of information and news circulating online, academics have argued, or democracy risks being eroded. Amateurish software engineering, a lack of long-term support for research infrastructure, and patchy access to tech platform data are leaving academics in the dark about what the explosion of social media content, podcasts and videos are doing to society and democracy.

If youre living in tigray province at the moment and you want to know whats actually happening on the ground, you would not listen to addis ababa. youd listen to the bbc cos you know the bbc would be trying to tell you, as well as it could, the truth as it saw it on the ground. thats a very interesting example cos, actually, if you really wanted to know what was going on on the ground in tigray, youd probably be best advised to follow all sorts of different people with different inclinations and...

Whats going on on the ground? i mean, take a very simple example. if youre living in tigray province at the moment and you want to know whats actually happening on the ground, you would not listen to addis ababa. youd listen to the bbc cos you know the bbc would be trying to tell you, as well as it could, the truth as it saw it on the ground. thats a very interesting example cos, actually, if you really wanted to know what was going on on the ground in tigray, youd probably be best advised to fo...

And you want to know whats actually happening on the ground, you would not listen to addis ababa. youd listen to the bbc cos you know the bbc would be trying to tell you, as well as it could, the truth as it saw it on the ground. thats a very interesting example cos, actually, if you really wanted to know what was going on on the ground in tigray, youd probably be best advised to follow all sorts of different people with different inclinations and political mind—sets on the ground in tigray, t...