A Government Practitioner’s Guide to Countering Online Foreign Covert Influence

Emerging from the fog of two decades dominated by counterterrorism, another national security wind is sweeping through public discourse: online covert influence operations. Like terrorism, the threat of covert influence can only be mitigated but never eliminated, both require persistent countermeasures, responses are often perceived as inflating the threat, and the solutions typically offered can be broad and abstract. Yet counterterrorism has discernible tactics. What is the corollary for countering foreign covert influence? 

Discourse surrounding “counterinfluence” often focuses on broad yet critical policies like advancing media literacy, but right now, today, how can the practitioner actually counter

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