U.S. Government

As the U.S. Congress moves closer to enacting a federal cyber incident reporting requirement (and as the administration fractures over how best to craft it), it is important to remember that there is another path — the federal government’s partnership with the fifty states.

America is in a crisis of trust and truth. Bad information has become as prevalent, persuasive, and persistent as good information, creating a chain reaction of harm. It makes any health crisis more deadly. It slows down response time on climate change. It undermines democracy. In their final report, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder makes 15 recommendations for how government, private industry, and civil society can reduce the greatest harms of mis- and disinformation.