Panel 5: Countering Disinformation and Other Malign Influence Operations
Panel Discussion
Transparency & Information
May 23, 2025
9:00 am - 10:30 am

RICHARD HEYDARIAN
Senior Lecturer, Master in International Studies, University of the PhilippinesPanel Chair

JONATHAN MALAYA
Assistant Director General, National Security CouncilPanelist

DR. CHONG JA IAN
Associate Professor of Political Science, National University of SingaporePanelist

COMMO. JAY TARRIELA
Chief, West Philippine Sea Transparency Group, Philippine Coast GuardPanelist

DR. TRICIA YEOH
Associate Professor of Practice, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham MalaysiaPanelist
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How can governments safeguard their institutions and the public from foreign malign influence operations that seek to confuse their people, poison political discourse, and make outright violations of international law seemingly acceptable and coercion, justifiable?