Elonnai Hickok is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Elonnai Hickok is an independent expert examining how technology and policy can impact and benefit society. She has contributed to international policy initiatives and has presented worldwide on issues of digital rights and emerging technology and the counterbalancing of governmental and individual interests and rights. She has developed research and written extensively on issues relating to privacy, cyber security, surveillance, intermediary liability, and AI. Formerly, Elonnai was the chief operating officer of the Centre for Internet & Society, India, and has been a consultant with the Ranking Digital Rights project and the Open Society Foundations. Elonnai graduated from the University of Toronto, where she studied international development and political science.
Research shows that fact-checking can reduce the harmful impacts of false information. But beyond that, we know relatively little about the efficacy of counter-influence measures being implemented or considered by platforms, governments, and civil society.
Influence operations can have measurable effects on people’s beliefs and behavior, but empirical research does not yet adequately answer the most pressing questions facing policymakers.
