重新平衡信息生态系统，重申社会对信息使用的共同承诺（英）

RAY BLOCK JR. | DAVID LUCKEY | DENNIS MURPHY CLAY STRICKLAND | FERNANDO ESTEVESREBALANCING THE INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM AND RENEWING SHARED SOCIETAL COMMITMENTS FOR INFORMATION USEE X P E R T I N S I G H T S P E R S P EC T I V E S O N A T I M E LY P O L I C Y I SS U E O C TO B E R 202 5For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/PEA112-4.About RANDRAND is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest. To learn more about RAND, visit www.rand.org.Research IntegrityOur mission to help improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis is enabled through our core values of quality and objectivity and our unwavering commitment to the highest level of integrity and ethical behavior. To help ensure our research and analysis are rigorous, objective, and nonpartisan, we subject our research publications to a robust and exacting quality-assurance process; avoid both the appearance and reality of financial and other conflicts of interest through staff training, project screening, and a policy of mandatory disclosure; and pursue transparency in our research engagements through our commitment to the open publication of our research findings and recommendations, disclosure of the source of funding of published research, and policies to ensure intellectual independence. For more information, visit www.rand.org/about/research-integrity.RAND’s publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif.© 2025 RAND Corporation is a registered trademark.Cover: Olga Tsikarishvili/Adobe Stock Limited Print and Electronic Distribution RightsThis publication and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited; linking directly to its webpage on rand.org is encouraged. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of its research products for commercial purposes. For information on reprint and reuse permissions, visit www.rand.org/about/publishing/permissions.PE-A112-4iiiAbout This PaperIn this paper, we outline a strategy for addressing the challenges that face the U.S. informa-tion ecosystem and explore how this ecosystem relates to American democracy and soci-ety’s shared values. Building on the research since the publication of Jennifer Kavanagh and Michael Rich’s seminal work on Truth Decay in 2018, this paper synthesizes insights from both RAND and external sources to set the stage for a next phase of work focused on the management of and commitment to information use, offering paths forward for analysis and action. Rather than merely assessing the problem, whic