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Mis- and Disinformation Research Agenda Survey: Key Themes
The Mitre Corporation, 2022, Case Number 22-2250
The brief report is a synthesis of research priorities in this area, gleaned from a survey of research information agendas and priorities, conference proceedings, and workshops. The result offers bullet lists of stated research priorities or needs, grouped according to the following fifteen themes:
- Infrastructure and Data Needs
- Data
- Attribution
- Tactics, Techniques and Procedures
- Motives
- Spread/Diffusion
- Impact
- Causal Models
- Offline (“Real-World”) Influence
- Impacts on Subpopulations
- Mitigation
- Strengthening Institutions
- Interdisciplinary and Cross-Sector Collaboration
- Cross-Platform and Cross-Format Research
- International Perspectives
The full-text of the report in PDF file format may be downloaded from this page; it is classified as being a technical paper on the MITRE website.