Bolsonaro survives, but will Brazil’s democracy?
“The odds look substantially bleaker for Brazilian democracy right now than they did 24 hours ago,” one expert said after left-wing former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took 48.4… Read more »
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Democrats sound alarm as Bolsonaro tests Brazilian democracy
The attempts by Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro to engineer social media regulation to keep his messages and those of his supporters safe from removal is yet another move which appears… Read more »
How WhatsApp helped Bolsonaro win Brazilian election
Brazil’s digital environment is a fertile ground for innovative strategies to spread polarizing content with the intent of manipulating public debate, notes Caio C. V. Machado, a Brazilian lawyer and… Read more »
Latin America braced for ‘Bolsonaro effect.’ How did the unthinkable happen?
Following the crushing victory of right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro in Sunday’s runoff presidential election, Brazil’s Latin American neighbors are bracing for a regional “Bolsonaro effect,” AFP reports: The knock-on effect… Read more »
Argentina: Can Milei’s ‘radical, untested’ ideas supplant Peronist clientelism?
Argentina’s not ready for Javier Milei’s ‘very radical, untested economic ideas’, says Dr Christopher Sabatini, the Senior Research Fellow for Latin America at the foreign affairs think tank, Chatham House…. Read more »
World’s strongmen ‘bend social media to their will’
The world’s autocrats continue to bend social media to their will, according to Samuel Woolley, the author of “Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity.” Despots have… Read more »
The menace hanging over Brazil
The tenure of Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain, brought the military back to the heart of government. He might have grudgingly left office, but Brazil’s military — privileged, preponderant… Read more »
Brazil’s democratic resilience frustrates ‘authoritarian learning’
Brazil’s democratic institutions demonstrated remarkable resilience in the face of Sunday’s assault on government buildings in the capital, Brasilia, said a U.S. government spokesperson. “We have seen remarkable resilience from… Read more »
‘Weapons of Mass Disruption’: Will generative AI kill democracy?
The role of social media platforms and messaging apps in Sunday’s political violence in Brasília is under the spotlight after experts highlighted their use by Jair Bolsonaro supporters to question the… Read more »
Why do some dictatorships fall while others do not?
The new U.S. Appropriations Bill pushes back against the rise of authoritarianism by investing $2.9 billion for democracy programs globally, including $315 million for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)…. Read more »