Transparency
What Do Transparency and Data Sharing Really Mean?
Alicia Wanless, Kamya Yadav Thu, Jun 9, 2022, 8:01 AM
Transparency reporting and data sharing aren’t the same. They aren’t even the right words.
Alicia Wanless is the director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Wanless is a PhD Researcher at King’s College London exploring how the information environment can be studied in similar ways to the physical environment. She is also a pre-doctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and was a tech advisor to Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder.
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Transparency
Time for Transparency From Digital Platforms, But What Does That Really Mean?
Heidi Tworek, Alicia Wanless Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 8:01 AM
U.S. lawmakers rarely agree these days. But across the political spectrum, most policymakers concur that digital platforms, including social media, messengers, and search engines, pose a problem.
Disinformation
Why Are Authoritarians Framing International Approaches to Disinformation?
Jacob N. Shapiro, Alicia Wanless Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 8:01 AM
Time is growing short to craft a vision for safeguarding the information environment that enables democracy and to prepare concrete proposals that will counter the authoritarian vision of central control.
influence operations
What’s Working and What Isn’t in Researching Influence Operations?
Alicia Wanless Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 10:32 AM
The field has certainly grown apace producing countless case studies highlighting examples of influence operations. Yet in many other ways the field has hit a rut.
Campaign 2020
Warren Has a Plan for Disinformation—What About Everyone Else?
Alicia Wanless Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 9:00 AM
The 2020 U.S. presidential election is playing out in the shadow of disinformation, but few candidates are promising to take action against it. Elizabeth Warren has a plan, but it’s not perfect.