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Why Are Authoritarians Framing International Approaches to Disinformation?

By Jacob N. Shapiro and Alicia Wanless Originally published in Lawfare On Nov. 15, the…

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Diplomacy in a Digital Age

On 15 February 2019, the Young Transatlantic Initiative and the General Delegation of the Government…

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La Generalista is the online identity of Alicia Wanless – a researcher and practitioner of strategic communications for social change in a Digital Age. Learn more about her work here
Alicia Wanless is the director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. With a growing international multi-stakeholder community, the Partnership aims to foster evidence-based policymaking to counter threats within the information environment. Wanless is currently a PhD Researcher at King’s College London exploring how the information environment can be studied in similar ways to the physical environment. She is also a pre-doctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and was a tech advisor to Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder. Her work has been featured in Lawfare, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, and CBC.
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