How Europe Can Tackle Influence Operations and Disinformation
January 29, 2021 Concerns over social media’s potential to disrupt democratic societies have existed at least since the emergence of the so-called Islamic State in the first half of the 2010s. The outcome of the UK’s Brexit referendum in 2016 and evidence of Russian influence operations during the 2016 U.S. presidential election only made such concerns more salient. Alicia Wanless is the director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations.More > Between the rampant spread of misinformation around the coronavirus pandemic and the failed U.S. Capitol insurrection by supporters o...
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