Influence Operations: What is Known and What Isn't?
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Year-long meta‑studies from the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations catalog 460 initiatives, find most focus on fact‑checking or journalism, and report only 8% mentioned efficacy with no details, exposing weak evidence on long‑term digital effects and Western populations; gaps include project‑based funding, lack of data‑sharing rules, geographic concentration in North America and Europe, and no sustained research infrastructure; recommended actions are networked governance, platform transparency reporting, and a multi‑stakeholder research hub like a CERN for the information environment.
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