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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unique societal stress as governments worldwide and their citizens have struggled to work together to contain the virus and mitigate its economic impact. This has been a trying time for democracies, testing the capacity of democratic governance to mobilise state and citizenry to work together. It has also tested the integrity of open information environments and the ability of these environments to deal with the overlapping challenges of disinformation, misinformation, election interference and cyber-enabled foreign interference.
This essay will analyse some of these emerging challenges while looking at both state and non-state actors manipulating the global information environment, with a particular focus on the Chinese state’s rapidly expanding interference and disinformation efforts. It also includes a series of recommendations for policymakers around the world.
Government needs to tackle foreign influence âgrey zoneâ
17 February 2021
Foreign influence has shifted from a mostly closed-door, elite practice to a constant that affects all parts of society
A new report from The Australian National University (ANU) has provided a roadmap for the Government to navigate the grey zone between acceptable foreign influence activities and unlawful interference.
Australia is a global leader in updating its laws and policy to manage foreign interference in the 21st century, according to the report s author and national security expert Katherine Mansted. Australia has had, since Federation, a range of laws that manage foreign influence risk, but globalisation and digitalisation, and the rise of modern authoritarian countries such as Russia and China, mean that Australia s foreign influence policy settings now need updating, Ms Mansted, a Senior Adviser for Public Policy at the National Security College, said.
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