360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - REMARKS FROM THE DEPUTY COORDINATOR OF THE GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER OF US DEPARTMENT OF STATE, LEAH BRAY - Deputy Coordinator of the Global Engagement Center at the US Department of State Leah Bray will briefly discuss the center's mission, and the role of c...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS—POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS - Over the last half decade, there has been massive growth in the prevalence of counter-disinformation efforts across civil society, academia, government, and the private sector. This development has been acc...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO GLOBAL TECH REGULATION - As the era of light to little tech regulation ends, different countries around the world are enacting wildly different approaches to how data should be protected, what the rules should be for online intermed...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - CHILD PROTECTION AND DIGITAL RIGHTS - The good governance of children’s data raises issues beyond data protection, including the validity of applying concepts such as informed consent to children, use of children’s data for marketing purposes and surveillanc...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW? THE CRISIS IN XINJIANG - What is the evidentiary basis for knowledge of the ongoing human rights crisis in Xinjiang? What methods can we employ to conduct rigorous analysis even as the Chinese government tries to prevent us from ...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - COVERING IT ALL: POWER AND TECH - This fireside chat will bring together two of the foremost voices covering the technology industry; Casey Newton, the founder of Platformer, and Sheera Frenkel, a reporter with the New York Times and author of An Ugly Truth ...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - DIGITAL GAMING: A JUGGERNAUT INDUSTRY QUIETLY SHAPED BY GEOPOLITICAL FORCES - The global gaming market topped $179 billion in revenue in 2020, making it larger than the global film industry ($100 billion) and North American professional sports (around $75 bi...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - WATCHING ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP—IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGY, BIOMETRICS, AND THE LAW - The collection and use of information in virtual and augmented reality is a dangerously unregulated space—essentially a “like button on steroids.” When the information ...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - MAPPING THE PLANDEMIC - The COVID-19 conspiracy video “Plandemic” was one of the defining viral disinformation events of 2020. The slickly produced, self-styled “documentary” featured a former research scientist active in anti-vaccine activist circles as an ...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - WHAT COMES AFTER AN 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/OS will ta...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - ELECTION INTEGRITY PARTNERSHIP - The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) was a coalition of research institutions that worked together to detect and mitigate viral misinformation and disinformation and to support the real-time information exchange between t...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - 2024: ELECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD - 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 ...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - FOREIGN INTERFERENCE ALLEGATIONS IN THE 2020 US ELECTION - Beginning with the first reports of Russian sockpuppet activity on Facebook in late 2016, the issue of foreign interference made an indelible impact on American politics and culture. In the lead-up t...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - INFLUENCE OPERATIONS: ADVERSARIAL TRENDS & LESSONS LEARNED - In an effort to address the efforts of state and non-state actors to manipulate the information environment, Facebook embraced the concept of tracking and disrupting “Coordinated Inauthentic Behavi...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - THE GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE - Much of the world’s most pervasive and visible online platforms are American. And yet their power, impact, and incentives are truly global in nature. As pressure mounts for governments to regulate the tech industry, understanding t...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - GENDER ONLINE: FROM LIABILITY TO FULL PARTICIPATION - You can’t have democracy if 50 percent of the global population doesn’t participate; however, information operations frequently use gendered and sexualized narratives to attack women, trivialize their acc...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - BATTLE FOR THE ITU AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE - A significant effort led by China and supported by Russia and a few other states, on the technology standardization front, has been directed towards coming up with a new architecture for the global Internet called...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - REMARKS FROM DANISH TECH AMBASSADOR ANNE MARIE LARSEN - Digital technology holds great potential for strengthening democracy and citizens’ engagement. New forms of mass movements and digital mobilization are invigorating democratic values at global scale. At...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - WHAT’S OLD IS NEW—FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL AND BACK AGAIN - 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. T...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - A BRIEF HISTORY: IT'S ALL (STILL) HAPPENING - A lot has changed in five years, and the field committed to countering influence operations and promoting a shared set of facts has a lot more knowledge, people, and resources to contribute. But we still have mor...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - ETHICS OF OSINT RESEARCH - OSINT researchers pride themselves on using open source tools to uncover unethical online practices like disinformation peddling and online harassment, but what happens when those same researchers engage in unsavory research method...

360/OPEN SUMMIT: THE WORLD IN MOTION - A CONVERSATION WITH REPRESENTATIVE TOM MALINOWSKI - Congressman Tom Malinowski has spent his career fighting for human rights around the world. Whether during his time as a student working with Burmese activists organizing for democracy, or his decade as Hum...