WATCH: Building Resilience in the Age of Disinformation
Fortifying the Future: Building Resilience in the Age of Disinformation
The National Committee on American Foreign Policy hosted a two-part event series, “Fortifying the Future: Building Resilience in the Age of Disinformation.” Each session featured insights from leading experts in business, media, policy, and technology. This series was supported by NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division
While social media channels and new technologies have rightly been lauded for their ability to foster community and bridge global divides, they can also create challenges when weaponized by nefarious actors. State-sponsored disinformation campaigns are underway, and routinely spread skepticism and animosity within civil society, and, critically, between the public and their elected officials. Disinformation can easily and cheaply be used to persuade the public at an accelerated and dangerous rate as the very algorithms utilized by digital platforms inadvertently encourage the sharing of false information. As such, hostile information activities have become an imminent security threat.
The long-term and deeply embedded relationships within NATO, and transatlantic relations more broadly, can provide the raw materials needed to build resilience and to fortify against future hostile information threats. In this two-part series, the first event will focus specifically on US policy, and how the private and public sectors can work in tandem to reduce threats. The second event will highlight European perspectives, and how national-level policy works in concert with multilateral decision-making in countering the threat of hostile information.
Session I: Fortifying the Future: Building Resilience in the Age of Disinformation
Moderated by Nicholas Thompson
November 29, 2021
Featured Panelists:
Kevin Allison
Director, Geo-Technology
Eurasia Group
Major General (ret.) Skip Davis
Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Defense and Security
Center for European Policy Analysis
Joan Donovan
Research Director,
Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Clara Tsao
Co-Founder and Board Member,
Trust & Safety Professional Association
Nicholas Thompson
CEO,
The Atlantic
Session II: Fortifying the Future: Building Resilience in the Age of Disinformation
Moderated by Nicholas Thompson
December 6, 2021
Featured Panelists:
Benjamin Haddad
Senior Director, Europe Center
Atlantic Council
Dominika Hajdu
Policy Director, Centre for Democracy and Resilience
GLOBSEC Policy Institute
Jakub Janda
Director,
European Values Center for Security Policy
James Pamment
Associate Professor,
Lund University
Nicholas Thompson
CEO,
The Atlantic
This series was supported by NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division