DISARM helps identify and respond to malign information influence operations

We help defenders analyse and share information about the nature and scale of information threats, facilitating targeted and proportional responses
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The DISARM Foundation supports the community working to detect, analyse and defend against influence operations by maintaining and enhancing our publicly available frameworks and tools

The DISARM Framework provides a common language and structure for defenders to share data and analysis, and coordinate whole of society responses to malign influence operations

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Vision & mission

Our vision is to see the community detecting and defending against influence operations, empowered by an ever better shared understanding of the nature and scale of threats, and thereby to see ever better informed and coordinated whole of society responses

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The field of work

No single word can capture all aspects of the field in which we work. The DISARM Framework supports efforts to reduce harms from activities such as ‘IO’ (influence operations), ‘IM’(information manipulation), ‘FIMI’ (foreign ‘IM’ and interference), ‘FMI’ (foreign malign influence) or ‘IIO' (illicit influence operations), among other terms and spheres.

Framework

What is the DISARM Framework

DISARM is the open-source, master framework for defending against influence operations through the coordination of effective action. The Framework has been developed, drawing on global cybersecurity best practices. It is used to help communicators, from whichever discipline or sector, to gain a clear shared understanding of incidents...

Funding and partnership

We are immensely grateful to the many who have played a part in bringing the DISARM Framework to life and helping to sustain our work. To those who have funded us, Alfred Landecker Foundation and Craig Newmark Philanthropies, and to our Partners: