360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - The world is changing in profound ways. The last year and a half accelerated long-running trends shaking up institutions, shifting power, and placing all of us in the middle of a global re-ordering. This year's 360/OS will take us through the events of the p...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - A CONVERSATION WITH KATHERINE MAHER - A conversation featuring former Wikimedia CEO, Katherine Maher. Maher will discuss her tenure leading one of the world’s largest and most trusted platforms, global debates over the Internet and the future of human rights...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - DOCUMENTING JANUARY 6 - The attack on the US Capitol on January 6 was not spontaneous; it was posted in plain sight on social media platforms and online forums, and was designed to convince more Americans of falsehoods about the 2020 elections. The Stop the ...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - THE POWER OF THE “BIG LIE” - Many commentators have come to regard systemic delegitimization of the 2020 election as the “Big Lie.” It joins other big lies throughout history, some of which have succeeded in destroying democratic systems and justifying terri...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - A YEAR OF GLOBAL PROTESTS: DOCUMENTING THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY - Political protests make visible the fight for democracy—from Minsk to Minneapolis, from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter—as participants of social movements utilize mobile phones and socia...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - DISINFORMATION IN AFRICA - From South Africa’s GuptaBots, to Uganda’s fake SevoLution accounts, and to Nigeria’s disinformation-for-hire influencers, disinformation is rampant on the African continent despite often being considered a Western problem. Governm...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - MISSED INFORMATION: GAPS IN ONLINE RESEARCH - By definition, open-source research is only as good as the sources of information that are openly available. But that has become more complicated than ever: Platforms are reducing what is accessible through API a...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - CATCH 'EM IF YOU CAN: DIGITAL SHERLOCKS GEOLOCATION TRAINING - The world is changing in profound ways. The last year and a half accelerated long-running trends shaking up institutions, shifting power, and placing all of us in the middle of a global re-orderi...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - WEAPONIZED: THE COVID-19 NARRATIVE ARMS RACE - COVID-19 is not only one of the deadliest pandemics in modern history, but also a dominating flashpoint in the global competition for information among nations, with competing narratives reflective of competing ...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - GEOPOLITICS OF THE COVID-19 “INFODEMIC” - The world is changing in profound ways. The last year and a half accelerated long-running trends shaking up institutions, shifting power, and placing all of us in the middle of a global re-ordering. This year's 360/O...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - DAY 1 CLOSING REMARKS - Closing remarks from the first day of the fourth 360/Open Summit. For this year’s 360/OS: The World in Motion, the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) brought together a team of experts across six continents with...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - CONNECTED BUT UNEQUAL: THE IMPACT AND INEQUITY OF GLOBAL PLATFORMS IN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS - The world is changing in profound ways. The last year and a half accelerated long-running trends shaking up institutions, shifting power, and placing all of us in the ...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - CHINESE CONCEPTIONS OF DISCOURSE POWER - One of China’s main goals in the global information space is to increase its international discourse power (huayuquan, 话语权). Discourse power is a term that describes the degree to which a country’s rhetoric is authori...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - CHINESE TECH IN THE WORLD - China has presented an alternative to universal rights in the form of an ideology pairing economic access and integration with centralized political control. The Chinese Communist Party uses technology to facilitate this political...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - INDUSTRY SELF-GOVERNANCE - With limited government regulation of the tech industry, the platforms on which we live our lives have been left to largely self-govern in addressing online harms. This has meant ever-evolving community guidelines and industry stan...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - SOCIAL MEDIA IN WAR AND PEACE - The world is changing in profound ways. The last year and a half accelerated long-running trends shaking up institutions, shifting power, and placing all of us in the middle of a global re-ordering. This year's 360/OS will tak...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - EU DIGITAL SERVICES ACT, EXPLAINED (BY ITS DRAFTERS) - The European Commission has put forward the first-of-its-kind, comprehensive regulatory framework for governing digital services firmly based on the rule of law. The Digital Services Act proposal (DSA) a...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - RADICALIZATION: FROM CONSPIRACY THEORIES TO VIOLENT EXTREMISM - How do social media users become enmeshed in conspiracy theories? In what circumstances do these conspiracy theories lead to further radicalization and, eventually, acts of violence? In this fir...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - FIGHTING ONLINE EXTREMISM IN THE FUTURE - While the United States continues to navigate the fallout of the attack on the US Capitol, policymakers, law enforcement, and civil society groups have sought to confront the groups that participated and the conditio...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - INDIA AT A CROSSROAD: SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY - A rapid uptick in usage of major social media platforms by locals has seen India emerge as one of the largest user bases of online denizens in recent years. The same period has also seen the emergence of a d...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - DISINFO FOR HIRE - One of the most notable trends in recent years is the increasing role that for-profit companies are playing in conducting disinformation campaigns. While companies have been contracted by governments to engage in propaganda for decades, we...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - KEYNOTE REMARKS WITH NATHAN LAW - Nathan Law is one of Hong Kong’s most high-profile democracy activists. After helping to drive the 2014 Umbrella Movement, forming a political party, and winning election to the Legislative Council, Law was stripped of his s...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - THE EVOLUTION OF DIGITAL CITIZEN MOVEMENTS IN ASIA - As repression has evolved, so has the use of tech by civic movements. Digital security and safety have become a survival skill in Hong Kong and, more recently, in Myanmar, where citizen-led movements have ...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - FINDING THE HIGH GROUND IN HYPERCONNECTED CONFLICT - The world is changing in profound ways. The last year and a half accelerated long-running trends shaking up institutions, shifting power, and placing all of us in the middle of a global re-ordering. This y...