Information Environment Awareness Training

What must an Airmen do to protect vital information and influence to increase or preserve combat power effectiveness?

Ask peers on social media such as Facebook, or Instagram.

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Correct, Airmen must take defensive and offensive actions to protect vital information and influence to increase or preserve combat power effectiveness and determine what is real.

What action should you take if you detect or suspect disinformation?

Generate counter-information

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Correct, instead of furthering the spread of disinformation with an online post, consider whether your public online response is truly needed. Many disinformation messages are best left ignored. If you do feel a need to alert others to disinformation, consider doing so in a private email or offline conversation.

Are fake twitter bots an organized influence operation controlled by Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Yes, fake twitter bots are real and used in influence operations

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Correct, internet bots can perform tasks, that are simple and repetitive, much faster than a person could ever do. More than half of all web traffic is generated by bots.

Within the media information timeline, what information period depicts the least accurate account of the event?

Six months to a year after the event

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Correct, for the day of the event, publishing is the priority, usually, there is no in-depth fact-checking, or review process. Both Twitter and Facebook have also shown inconsistencies or political biases in the material they block or distribute. This generates a situation in which the use of social media for news is little more than a groupthink echo chamber.

False stories of unjustified strikes against an adversary could create doubt about the reliability of sensors and weapons and cause hesitation.

True

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Correct, using false stories of unjustified strikes against an adversary, misinterpreting sensor indications as hostile enemy action, or attacking a misidentified ship or aircraft, a foreign actor could create doubt about the reliability of sensors and weapons and cause an operator to delay their response while reassessing the situation and resolving uncertainty.

What is one example of a Diplomatic Informational Military and Economic (DIME) being used as a national power for creating and exploiting the information advantage?

Infiltrating decision-making control centers.

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Correct, the acronym Diplomatic Informational Military and Economic (DIME), has been used for many years to describe the instruments of national power. Using information to shape and control state activities is one method to create and exploit the information advantage supporting the National Security Strategy.

Question 7

Why are social-media-generated facts increasingly the information weapons of choice?

All of these

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Correct, centuries before the Internet, people understood that falsehoods spread through the social sphere faster than the truth. It is human nature. We also realize that social media facts can be made real by a statement, replication, and wide and rapid distribution despite the lack of any data or facts supporting them.

Question 8

What instrument of national power may be used to advance America’s strategic interests on the international stage?

Persuade mass communications to subdue, subvert, and submit to targeted narratives.

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Correct, information used as a national power is an instrument of national power which the federal government can exercise a significant degree of control that, when combined with other instruments of national power, represents a significant opportunity to advance America’s strategic interests on the international stage.

Question 9

Social media algorithms are designed to prioritize content the audience will engage with shares, reactions, and links, because that’s how they earn advertising revenue.

True

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Correct, social media algorithms are designed to prioritize content the audience will engage with shares, reactions, and links because that’s how they earn advertising revenue. Emotion-ridden posts tend to result in more engagement, which means they get prioritized by the algorithm and more people see them, and then they engage, and the cycle accelerates.

Question 10

When using the SMART model and analyzing information based on the Authority phase, which of the following is an example of credible credentials?

unkown

Question 11

What does cognitive warfare attempt to accomplish?

unknown

Question 12

When using the SMART model and analyzing information based on the Motives phase, which of the following is the most critical set of indicators of establishing negative motives for disinformation?

To influence your allegiance to your country

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Correct, disinformation from US adversaries often seeks to persuade and deceive as part of their overall National Security Strategy. Other disinformation may be provided by others with the intent to sell or advocate for a particular political, religious, or personal agenda.