Month

March 2023
The state of civic engagement in the U.S. today  by Christina Nemr and Eliza Thompson A worrying trend is emerging in the United States, namely a decline in public trust. Confidence in major institutions fell to a record low in 2022 as Gallup recorded a significant decline in trust for 11 of 16 major U.S....
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Attention Authors and Cognitive Security Thought Leaders! For April 2023, IPA welcomes your submission of original content related to Large Language Models (LLM) and Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) technology. How do these technologies affect human cognition? How may these technologies be used in helpful or harmful ways? Cognitive Security is a field concerned with...
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Starting in March 2023, IPA will have “Brown Bag” meetings which are available only for IPA members. At each virtual gathering, a guest will present on a topic related to cognitive security, information operations, policy matters, and other topics related to the study, advancement, and application of information-related activities and technologies to achieve specific, predictable...
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Phoenix Challenge in London Was a Great Success! The Phoenix Challenge is a series of events ARLIS leads on behalf of the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy to elevate the importance of cross-government collaboration in addressing challenges to operations in the information environment. Ultimately, the goal is to accelerate success for Operations...
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Brandt, J., Schafer, B., Aghekyan, E., Wirtschafter, V., & Danditya, A. (2022). Winning the web: How Beijing exploits search results to shape views of Xinjiang and COVID-19. Brookings Institute. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/winning-the-web-how-beijing-exploits-search-results-to-shape-views-of-xinjiang-and-covid-19/
Mankoff, J. (2020). With Friends Like These: Assessing Russian Influence in Germany. Center for Strategic & International Studies. https://www.csis.org/analysis/friends-these-assessing-russian-influence-germany
Babbage, R. (2019). Winning Without Fighting: Chinese and Russian Political Warfare Campaigns and How the West Can Prevail. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. https://csbaonline.org/research/publications/winning-without-fighting-chinese-and-russian-political-warfare-campaigns-and-how-the-west-can-prevail/publication/1
Singer, P. W. (n.d.). Winning the War of Words: Information Warfare in Afghanistan. Brookings. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.brookings.edu/articles/winning-the-war-of-words-information-warfare-in-afghanistan/
Koerner, B. I. (2016, March). Why ISIS Is Winning the Social Media War—And How to Fight Back. Wired. https://www.wired.com/2016/03/isis-winning-social-media-war-heres-beat/