The Information Environment Project

Hello, Bluesky! We're a team based at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace that advances the study of the information environment to inform policymaking. 1/2 carnegieendowment.org/projects/inf...

🆕| What does “AI sovereignty” mean in practice? @1lucabelli.bsky.social argues that technological self-sufficiency is unrealistic for most countries. Instead, governments should build sovereign capacity around three pillars: agency, interoperability, and openness.👇

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has twice inspired praise for the way he has stood up to U.S. President Donald Trump. Is Carney showing a third way better than the EU has in its dealings with the Trump administration? Read experts' takes: carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

New from Raluca Csernatoni and @lageneralista.ca for @carnegieeurope.bsky.social: hybrid threats keep outpacing policy. Getting ahead means assessing the whole information ecosystem, not chasing each incident. carnegieendowment.org/europe/resea...

New from @carnegieendowment.org colleagues Raluca Csernatoni & Patryk Pawlak: agentic AI breaks the assumptions cyber defence was built on—human operators, slow kill chains, traceable attribution. The EU's problem isn't regulatory volume but regulatory fit: carnegieendowment.org/europe/resea...

In recognition of CDT's Giving Day on Friday, July 10, support us in our work advancing legislation, policies, and practices to use AI for good, while preventing uses that undermine your rights and our democracy. Thank you for your support! cdt.org/2026summers/

We're looking for outstanding mid-career journalists to join our fellowship programme in 2026-27. Explore the future of journalism through an immersive programme of seminars, events, discussions and a personal project. Deadline to apply: 13 Feb

Information integrity is much discussed these days, but how is it defined, and can current uses be practically applied to messy, sprawling national information ecosystems? @kamyayadav.bsky.social, @samlai.bsky.social and @lageneralista.ca explore in this chapter: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

🎧 Looking for a great audio interview? CSDI Director @heiditworek.bsky.social spoke to KKFI Radio about the modern communication landscape, what we can learn from media trends of the past, and much more. kkfi.org/program-epis...

Our own @lageneralista.ca was on CBC’s The House this weekend talking about her book “The Information Animal”. Listen here 👉🏼 Did Putin triumph over Trump at the Alaska summit? www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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

🚨Fantastic project based at a great institution 🚨

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 👇👇👇 🎧 pod.fo/e/3083cd 🎥 youtu.be/7nsXSlXoiBU

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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/...

🚨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. 🧵👇 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kn5KxRaZn...

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:

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...

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 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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@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.

New at Political Research Quarterly: Our latest study analyzing Latino political engagement & activity on social media, from Marisa Abrajano & Marianna Garcia from @ucsandiego.bsky.social, and Aaron Pope, @robertvidigal.bsky.social, Edwin Kamau, @jatucker.bsky.social, & Jonathan Nagler of CSMaP.

How do Danes feel about online content moderation? A highly timely question, in the wake of Meta's announced changes to their platforms and product lines! A research report co-authored by our very own @claesdevreese.bsky.social & @madshovethy.bsky.social provides answers! 💡⤵️

My team is looking for someone to lead our operations and communications in a senior-level role! More details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50079/

Pub alert 📣🤩 Our latest climate change & news audiences report is out, with insights from 3yrs of survey data across 8 countries. Despite the worsening climate crisis, climate news consumption & attitudes have remained remarkably stable - a pattern we term "climate perception inertia." For more👇

Open postdoc position at CEU in data science, network science or computational social science. Deadline: Feb. 22.