Information Operations Roadmap

USA Pentagon Military Visioning (2003-2006)

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The Information Operations Roadmap is a document commissioned by the Pentagon in 2003 and declassified in January 2006. The document was personally approved by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,[1] and describes the United States Military's approach to Information operations, with an emphasis on the Internet.[2]

## See also

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* Computer network operations
* Electronic warfare
* Military deception
* Operations security
* Propaganda
* Psychological operations (United States)
* Psychological warfare
* PSYOP
* War on Terrorism

## References

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1. ^ Rumsfeld's Roadmap to Propaganda by National Security Archive, January 26, 2006
2. ^ "Information Operations Roadmap Document" (PDF). Executive Services Directorate. 30 October 2003. p. 1. Retrieved 29 August 2024.

## External links

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* PDF of this document
* Information Operations Roadmap (PDF)
* US plans to 'fight the net' revealed, BBC News, January 27, 2006

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Disinformation and misinformation

Core content

* Disinformation
* Misinformation
* Malinformation
* Propaganda
* Disinformation attack
* Disinformation research
* Publications about disinformation

Mechanisms

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* Cognitive bias
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* Denialism
* Manipulation
* Misinformation effect
* Political polarization
* Psychology of climate change denial

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Computational|

* Algorithmic radicalization
* Content moderation
* Community notes
* Internet manipulation
* Social bot
* Social networking service
* List
* User-generated content

Economic|

* Fake news websites
* Surveillance capitalism
* Programmatic advertising

Media and Politics|

* Audience fragmentation
* Echo chamber (media)
* Fake news
* Media bias
* Media culture
* Media manipulation

Tactics

* Astroturfing
* Big Lie
* Circular reporting
* Clickbait
* Conspiracy theory
* List
* Culture war
* Deception
* Deepfake
* Disinformation playbook
* Dog whistle (politics)
* Doublespeak
* Doxxing
* Fake news
* Fake news website
* List of fake news websites
* List of satirical fake news websites
* False accusation
* False attribution
* False balance
* Fear, uncertainty, and doubt
* Firehose of falsehood
* Forgery as covert operation
* Gaslighting
* Greenwashing
* Historical negationism
* Information warfare
* Logic and reasoning
* Cherry picking
* False dilemma
* Gish gallop
* Half-truth
* Fallacy
* Formal fallacy
* Informal fallacy
* List of fallacies
* Quote mining
* Red herring
* Whataboutism
* Memetic warfare
* Pink-slime journalism
* Psychological warfare
* Propaganda
* Black propaganda
* Counterpropaganda
* State-sponsored Internet propaganda
* Perception management
* Rumors
* Spin (propaganda)
* Smear campaign
* Scientific fabrication
* Strategy of tension
* Yellow journalism

Related terms

* Alternative facts
* Factoid
* Hoax
* Infodemic
* Malinformation
* Post-truth politics
* Potemkin village
* Pseudoscience
* Tabloid journalism
* Truthiness

Targets and campaigns

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Politics by country|

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Antisemitism|

* Holocaust denial
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Environmental science|

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Medicine and Public health|

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Journalism and journalists|

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Countering disinformation

* Academic research
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* Verificado 2018
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Fact-checking and research

| Fact-checking|

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* Private companies
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* NewsGuard
* StopFake

* Other
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Research|

* Canada
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* EU
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* Finland
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* New Zealand
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* UK
* Counter disinformation unit

* Ukraine
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* Disinformation Governance Board
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