Biden, Putin summit a necessary exercise
Pandemic misinformation | Open Skies Treaty | Media accountability
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June 17, 2021
NUCLEAR RISK
Biden-Putin summit a necessary exercise
It may make sense to consider this summit more of a messaging exercise to set up future success. After four years of drift and chaos, perhaps that is as much as one might have hoped for from this meeting. Read more.
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
6 takeaways from a misinformed pandemic
Five days after the World Health Organization classified COVID-19 as a pandemic, the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project at Princeton University began cataloging misinformation efforts surrounding the spread of the coronavirus in collaboration with Microsoft Research. Here’s what they found.
NUCLEAR RISK
Reimagining the Open Skies Treaty
The Open Skies Treaty was created at the end of the Cold War. It might be time to take another look at the program which allows participant countries to conduct unarmed aerial surveillance flights to promote military transparency. Read more.
VIRTUAL PROGRAM
Media accountability in a world of disinformation
Join the Alan Alda Center’s Laura Lindenfeld and the News Literacy Project’s Alan Miller in conversation with the Knight Foundation’s Paul Cheung on June 23 to discuss how we can identify and combat growing disinformation. Register now.
SPONSORED
Recommendations for strategic stabilityHow to prevent great power competition from escalating into open military conflict? Enhancing strategic stability in today’s world will have to take into account diverging views from all relevant actors. The Körber Strategic Stability Initiative developed 19 principles & policy recommendations that can serve as a starting point. Learn more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“It was really sticking my neck out, because no one else was saying it at the time … Everyone was just going with the narrative: ‘Yeah, no, it’s natural,’ and there’s no discussion.”
–Filippa Lentzos, “A Scientist Who Said No to Covid Groupthink,” Wall Street Journal
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