The Disinformation Crisis: Who Gets to Be on the Internet?

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camille francois is chief ation officer at the siber security company graphica. She helped form the election integrity partnership, which monitored online efforts to undermine the 20 20 us. Elections in real time. There are no easy answers to the question of who gets to be on the internet doing what but cami is one of the few people with expertise and knowledge to help us tisect the issues,. add context and guide us forward.

Disinformation researchers have been fighting two battles over the last decade: one to combat and contain harmful information, and one to convince the world that these manipulations have an offline impact that requires complex, nuanced solutions. Camille François, Chief Information Officer at the cybersecurity company Graphika and an affiliate of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, believes that our common understanding of the problem has recently reached a new level. In this interview, she catalogues the key changes she observed between studying Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and helping convene and operate the Election Integrity Partnership watchdog group before, during and after the 2020 election. “I'm optimistic, because I think that things that have taken quite a long time to land are finally landing, and because I think that we do have a diverse set of expertise at the table,” she says. Camille and Tristan Harris dissect the challenges and talk about the path forward to a healthy information ecosystem.