# Plain Language Summary: National Strategy for the Global Information Domain Act

This bill creates a new working group inside the President's office to figure out how the United States should respond to information warfare and propaganda campaigns from foreign countries and hostile groups. Think of it as assembling a team of experts from different government agencies to develop a game plan for protecting America's information space—basically, how we communicate, what we see online, and how our opinions are shaped.

The working group will bring together leaders from major national security agencies like the State Department, Defense Department, and intelligence agencies. Their main job is to create a comprehensive strategy that recognizes the "global information domain" as a serious national security threat, similar to how we treat military threats. They'll examine how countries like Russia and China use fake news, social media manipulation, and AI-generated content to influence public opinion and gain strategic advantages. The group will also look at whether we need to update how we protect critical infrastructure—like power grids and communications networks—to defend against these information attacks.

The strategy they develop will include recommendations for how government agencies should be organized to fight back against these threats and compete in the information space. The bill gives them about nine months to complete this work and send it to Congress. Once they deliver their strategy, the working group automatically shuts down three months later. For most Americans, this won't have an immediate visible impact, but it could shape how the government approaches cybersecurity, social media regulation, and efforts to counter foreign propaganda in the years ahead.

National Strategy for the Global Information Domain Act

Lynch, Stephen F.

National Strategy for the Global Information Domain Act This bill establishes a temporary working group, comprised of members (or attendees) of the National Security Council who are appointed by the President, to develop a national strategy for the global information domain. The global information domain refers to a sphere of strategic competition in which state and nonstate actors create, distort, obtain, disseminate, or otherwise engage with information to influence public opinion for national security, geopolitical, or economic purposes. The global information domain strategy must, among other requirements, (1) prioritize the domain as vital to U.S. national security, (2) describe how adversarial actors define and control the domain and their use of artificial intelligence-enabled malign information, and (3) make recommendations to counter adversarial efforts.