Digital (Dis)information operations : fooling the five eyes / edited by Melissa-Ellen Dowling.

Includes index.

INTRODUCTION -- 1. Decoding Digital (Dis)Information Operations -- PART I: Human Techniques of Digital (Dis)Information Operations -- 2. “Follow the White Rabbit”: Narrative Pleasure and Power in Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation Campaigns -- 3. A Psychological Approach to Understanding and Countering Conspiracy Theories Online -- 4. Cambridge Analytica’s Capability for Influence: Is Manipulation Merely Big Data, Psychological Profiles and Personalised Ads? -- PART II: Human Approaches to Countering Digital (Dis)Information Operations -- 5. Mitigating Microtargeting: Political Microtargeting Law in Australia and New Zealand -- 6. Move Fast and Fix Things: Designing Training for Understanding and Combatting Disinformation, Misinformation, and Malign Influence -- 7. When WEIRD Things Don’t Work: Rethinking the Five Eyes’ Approach to Disinformation -- PART III: Transgovernmental and Intergovernmental Initiatives and Imperatives -- 8. Bridging the Sovereign Gap: The Five Eyes, Transgovernmental Networks, and the State in a Digitally Connected World -- 9. The Anglo Archipelago: How AUKUS and the Anglosphere Are Shaping the Global Security Calculus -- 10. Constitutional Challenges in Combatting Disinformation and the Five Eyes Alliance – CONCLUSION -- 11. Cyber-Enabled Information Operations: Lessons Learned from Human-Centric Research -- Index

This book offers an interdisciplinary insight into the key debates around information warfare in the digital age and argues that transnational cooperation can mitigate the threat. States and societies are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-enabled information operations. From efforts to divide nations, undermine public policy, manipulate elections, and generate social discord, malign actors use the online realm to wreak havoc on our offline lives. The book explores the digital disinformation dilemma that confronts liberal democracies, reflecting on shared socio-political challenges and solutions to contemporary information operations amongst the Five Eyes states and beyond. The work aims to generate a holistic human-centric perspective on the challenges of digital (dis)information operations through interdisciplinary insight into shared challenges and solutions to contemporary information warfare. Together, these perspectives enable us to more effectively identify opportunities to address the challenge and increase the potential to enrich international collaborative efforts to safeguard liberal democracies from threats to their information environments. This book will be of much interest to students of information warfare, intelligence studies, foreign policy and International Relations.