M007: metatechnique
Summary:
| Counters in M007 | ||
| disarm_id | name | summary |
| C00012 | Platform regulation | Empower existing regulators to govern social media. Also covers Destroy. Includes: Include the role of social media in the regulatory framework for media. The U.S. approach will need to be carefully crafted to protect First Amendment principles, create needed transparency, ensure liability, and impose costs for noncompliance. Includes Create policy that makes social media police disinformation. Includes: Use fraud legislation to clean up social media |
| C00120 | Open dialogue about design of platforms to produce different outcomes | Redesign platforms and algorithms to reduce the effectiveness of disinformation |
| C00159 | Have a disinformation response plan | e.g. Create a campaign plan and toolkit for competition short of armed conflict (this used to be called “the grey zone”). The campaign plan should account for own vulnerabilities and strengths, and not over-rely on any one tool of statecraft or line of effort. It will identify and employ a broad spectrum of national power to deter, compete, and counter (where necessary) other countries’ approaches, and will include understanding of own capabilities, capabilities of disinformation creators, and international standards of conduct to compete in, shrink the size, and ultimately deter use of competition short of armed conflict. |
| C00161 | Coalition Building with stakeholders and Third-Party Inducements | Advance coalitions across borders and sectors, spanning public and private, as well as foreign and domestic, divides. Improve mechanisms to collaborate, share information, and develop coordinated approaches with the private sector at home and allies and partners abroad. |
| C00170 | elevate information as a critical domain of statecraft | Shift from reactive to proactive response, with priority on sharing relevant information with the public and mobilizing private-sector engagement. Recent advances in data-driven technologies have elevated information as a source of power to influence the political and economic environment, to foster economic growth, to enable a decision-making advantage over competitors, and to communicate securely and quickly. |
| C00174 | Create a healthier news environment | Free and fair press: create bipartisan, patriotic commitment to press freedom. Note difference between news and editorialising. Build alternative news sources: create alternative local-language news sources to counter local-language propaganda outlets. Delegitimize the 24 hour news cycle. includes Provide an alternative to disinformation content by expanding and improving local content: Develop content that can displace geopolitically-motivated narratives in the entire media environment, both new and old media alike. |
| C00176 | Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private | Coordinated disinformation challenges are increasingly multidisciplinary, there are few organizations within the national security structures that are equipped with the broad-spectrum capability to effectively counter large-scale conflict short of war tactics in real-time. Institutional hurdles currently impede diverse subject matter experts, hailing from outside of the traditional national security and foreign policy disciplines (e.g., physical science, engineering, media, legal, and economics fields), from contributing to the direct development of national security countermeasures to emerging conflict short of war threat vectors. A Cognitive Security Action Group (CSAG), akin to the Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG), could drive interagency alignment across equivalents of DHS, DoS, DoD, Intelligence Community, and other implementing agencies, in areas including strategic narrative, and the nexus of cyber and information operations. |
| C00205 | strong dialogue between the federal government and private sector to encourage better reporting | Increase civic resilience by partnering with business community to combat gray zone threats and ensuring adequate reporting and enforcement mechanisms. |
| C00220 | Develop a monitoring and intelligence plan | Create a plan for misinformation and disinformation response, before it's needed. Include connections / contacts needed, expected counteremessages etc. |
| C00221 | Run a disinformation red team, and design mitigation factors | Include PACE plans - Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency |
| C00222 | Tabletop simulations | Simulate misinformation and disinformation campaigns, and responses to them, before campaigns happen. |