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Defending Democracy from the Bad-Faith Actors Who Seek to Undermine It >
A Collective Strategy for Protecting Democracy from Bad-Faith Actors
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Resisting Deceptive Propaganda
Democratic citizens need to dramatically improve their ability to detect and resist the highly sophisticated propaganda that now pervades our high-tech information systems and tries to persuade us to do things that are contrary to our interests.
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Resisting Firehose of Falsehood Attacks
A particularly insidious form of propaganda attempts to flood communication channels with contradictory and unreliable information in an attempt to persuade people that there are no reliable sources of information and that is pointless to try to understand who is right.
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Counter Targetcast Deception
Targetcasting is a new kind of advanced, high-tech propaganda. It uses the detailed individual profiles now commercially available to craft individualized messages tailored to each voters preconceptions and prejudices.
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Resisting Disinformation
This section focuses on strategies for countering deliberate efforts to get large segments of the public to believe things that are objectively untrue (usually as part of a broader effort to get people to do things that undermine, rather than advance, their interests).
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Unspinning Deceptive Spin
Here we focus on countering the "spin doctors" who focus on deceptively convincing people that damaging facts really aren't so damaging after all (and should, instead, be interpreted as good news).
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Information Warfare
Information warfare is getting increasingly common as the Internet and social media make it so easy and inexpensive to drown users in false information.
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Misinformation and Disinformation
Intentional distortion of information has become a significant problem in the social media driven information environment. It is trivially easy to make up very believable stories with photographic or "scientific data" as proof. And the mis/dis information strategy of "firehose of falsehoods" has successfully convinced many people that there actually is no truth, or at least no way to ascertain it. So best to just stick with your own beliefs -- right or not!
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Disinformation Fighters
Disinformation Fighters reduce the influence of deliberately deceptive and malicious disinformation and propaganda campaigns designed to inflame tensions while, at the same time, promoting the exchange of reliable information.
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Strategies for Improving the Global Information Environment: Results from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
This IPIE Summary for Policymakers presents the main findings of two IPIE Synthesis Reports that examine countermeasures to misinformation on social media platforms.