The Information Environment Project

No summer break for disinfo tracking! 🕶️🔥

Freshly updated factsheets – narratives, key cases, policy responses & community – are now available for:
🔹 Lithuania www.disinfo.eu/publications...
🔹 Latvia www.disinfo.eu/publications...

From our EU-wide series 🌍💪 www.disinfo.eu/publications...

We already have over 100 sign-ups but a few spots are still available for Day 1 of the Data Access Days on research access to platform data under the Digital Services Act (DSA) — happening on 25 September 2025.

Join us in Berlin! 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
#DSA40 #DigitalServicesAct

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On our latest episode, Chris talks with @lageneralista.ca Alicia Wanless about her book “The Information Animal”, which explores how disinformation, strategic communication, and the competition for reality are reshaping our world.

Listen & watch here 👇👇👇

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How to Confront Canada’s Digital Dependence Even a cursory glance at Canada’s digital providers exposes substantial reliance on foreign firms.

Canada’s digital sovereignty (or lack thereof) is a growing concern. @heiditworek.bsky.social and @lageneralista.ca argue that to build an independent tech 'CanStack', policymakers need to start with a full assessment of the information ecosystem. www.cigionline.org/articles/how...

How to Confront Canada’s Digital Dependence Even a cursory glance at Canada’s digital providers exposes substantial reliance on foreign firms.

Sovereignty is deeply tied to information ecosystems – from digital platforms to local news. Is Canada truly resilient? This article by
@heiditworek.bsky.social and @lageneralista.ca breaks down Canada's vulnerabilities and what to do about them
www.cigionline.org/articles/how...

Understanding the Information Environment to Protect Democracy The information environment has become one of the most contested space in international affairs. From the Covid-19 pandemic to recent Russian interference in elections in Romania and Moldova, disinfor...

Join us on June 11 at @carnegieeurope.bsky.social for a special event with @spokesperson.europarl.europa.eu, Marie-Doha Besancenot, @aa.disinfo.eu and our own @lageneralista.ca carnegieendowment.org/events/2025/...

The Liverpool Response to Misinformation Was a Good First Step—but It’s Not Enough Rushing to stamp out sparks makes sense. But policymakers need to prevent those sparks in the first place by better understanding the conditions that make misinformation catch fire.

Liverpool police were quick to release demographic information of the driver who rammed his car into a crowd last month. This move was an attempt at quelling misinformation – but was it enough?

@lageneralista.ca ‬ weighed in for Emissary: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

The BBC - A Catalyst for Building Trust Speech delivered by Tim Davie, Director-General of the BBC, at the Lowry Theatre in Salford

Recommend reading BBC Director General Tim Davie's recent speech - a clear (and therefore necessarily contentious) vision for the future of public service, including the necessity and desire to work with digital platforms to be able to “serve everyone, everywhere” www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Informaatiosaaste uhkaa yksilöiden ja yhteiskuntien hyvinvointia. Mikä avuksi? | Tiedeykkönen Disinformaatio, infoähky, some-pahoinvointi, älypuhelimet ja dopamiinikoukku – monet tutkijat puhuvat sosiaalisen median ja uusien teknologioiden haittapuolista viitaten “informaatioympäristön” saastu...

It's befitting that my first media interview about The Information Animal is with Tiedeykkönen on Yle given Finland is featured in a book chapter areena.yle.fi/1-73932664 - @hurstpublishers.bsky.social will have the first books in hand next week! Exciting and terrifying all at the same time!

Events – Knight-Georgetown Institute

🚨THIS WEEK🚨
Join us in-person or online for two timely discussions on platform liability, litigation, and the evolving digital ecosystem.
🔗 Register Here: kgi.georgetown.edu/events/

It's well known that politicians take more extreme positions during primaries. In @electoralstudies.bsky.social, we find this shift is much more likely when incumbents in safe seats face a well-funded primary challenger.

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International Approaches to Research on the Information Environment Varying cultural contexts create key differences in how people access and understand new information.

Varying contexts affect how people around the world understand the information environment. In this compendium edited by @samlai.bsky.social, six experts offer perspectives that key decisionmakers may neglect when they conduct international work on the information environment:

Our very own @samlai.bsky.social will be speaking at this panel next Wednesday. Learn more here:

Investigations Operations Lead - Careers at Airbnb Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco …

AirBnB seeks an Investigation Operations Lead to join their Trust Intelligence team:

YouTube is looking for a Policy Enforcement Manager to ensure that their age appropriateness policies are enforced effectively:

Public Policy Associate, Privacy Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.

Meta’s Privacy & Public Policy team is looking for a Public Policy Associate to join the Legislation and Policy Development team and work on issues related to privacy, data use, and AI:

Roblox is hiring a Critical Harms Safety Operations Specialist in Self Harm & Harmful Content:

Snap, Inc. is looking for a Proactive Trust & Safety Lead, who will conduct deep dive investigations into content that violate platform policies:

Program Associate, Democracy Program (Historians’ Project) - Brennan Center for Justice - Career Page Apply to Program Associate, Democracy Program (Historians’ Project) at Brennan Center for Justice in New York, NY.

@brennancenter.bsky.social has an opening for a Program Associate with the Democracy Program:

The Bridging Divides Initiative at the Princeton University is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States. They have an opening for a Threats/Harassment Researcher:

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Welcome to #WorkWednesday! Read on for a thread of jobs and opportunities related to conflict and governance in the information environment.

CDT’s CEO Alexandra Reeve Givens joins the @lawfare.bsky.social’s podcast to discuss the Paris #AIActionSummit & whether it signals a shift from AI safety to AI security. What would this mean for global AI governance? Tune in for expert insights! www.lawfaremedia.org...

🚨 AI, music & extremism 🎵

Join us as we explore "Melodies of Malice" and uncover how far-right communities leverage AI to transform the landscape of music propaganda and spread disinformation across mainstream platforms.

📅 6 March 2025
🕒 14:30 CET

🔗 Register here 👇
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) - ROMANIAN-Language Research Analyst ISD is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to safeguarding human rights and reversing the rising tide of polarisation, extremism and disinformation worldwide.Why work for ISD?ISD is not

ISD is looking for a Romanian-speaking research consultant to support a new project focused on the May 2025 Romanian presidential election. Interested? More details below! isdglobal.recruitee.com/o/consultant...

The EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation is Now Part of the Digital Services Act. What Does It Mean? | TechPolicy.Press Tech Policy Press asked experts whether the Code's integration into the DSA will effectively mitigate disinformation while preserving free expression.

The EU's Disinformation Code will now be a "benchmark" for platform compliance under DSA.

I asked experts whether the Code's integration into DSA effectively mitigate disinformation in the EU or will it serve as another regulatory sleight of hand.

www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-code...

As journalists increase their use of AI, how will that impact trust in news? This study finds labeling news with AI-written content decreased trust among readers, and the effect was most pronounced among those with higher pre-existing trust in news.

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Assessing National Information Ecosystems To know how a system has changed, one must first know what constitutes the system and its prior state.

Governments are intervening in information ecosystems with very little understanding of how they work. That leads to a belief that there are lessons learned in one that can be applied to others. But what might work in Finland could be disastrous elsewhere:
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Assessing National Information Ecosystems To know how a system has changed, one must first know what constitutes the system and its prior state.

@lageneralista.ca, @samlai.bsky.social and John Hicks propose a framework for assessing national information ecosystems that can help policymakers understand the operating environment where threats like foreign interference exist.

carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

It’s hard to keep up with all the risk assessments, audits, and other major new info dumps from platforms about their DSA compliance. Here’s a great overview from @davidsullivan.bsky.social of where we stand, what is noteworthy so far, and what should happen next.