Techno-nationalism: Future of free, open internet at stake
The world slid into a new crisis last week and for once COVID-19 was not to blame, notes a SecDev Special Dispatch. Over a 48 hour period the US government… Read more »
Category: digital democracy
How the Chinese Communist Party campaigns to shape global narratives
How do state actors with full-spectrum propaganda capabilities put them to use in modern-day information operations? a new report asks. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long prioritized disinformation to… Read more »
Internet platforms’ rights and responsibilities to protect democracy
Private-sector platforms should acknowledge and embrace their own free expression right to combat political disinformation and to protect democracy, argues Eileen Donahoe (left), executive director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator… Read more »
Autocrats’ attacks a tribute to independent media’s power
The ultimate, most severe threats to a free press come from governments, which, to justify their actions, have seized opportunistically on causes ranging from requiring platforms to moderate posts to… Read more »
How to counter disinformation’s deadly fallout
Deepfakes, big data, and virtual reality—our working paper by @samuelwoolley @katie_joseff addresses how these emerging technologies may interact with the psychological factors that drive the demand for disinformation https://t.co/BzAyJs5VE4… Read more »
State-sponsored disinformation – the elephant in the room
Discussions on disinformation mostly focus on the external sources of disinformation: Russia and China. But if we focus exclusively on disinformation as a foreign challenge, we are simply ignoring the… Read more »
Disinformation poses ‘existential threat’ to democracy
Disinformation and democracy https://t.co/6nyHdtOwCq — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) June 30, 2020 Online disinformation poses an “existential threat” to democracy, according to a cross-party group of peers from the UK’s… Read more »
Can democracy adapt to the digital age?
Foreign hackers are taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to undermine democratic institutions and threaten critical infrastructure, a top U.S. military cyber official said Thursday, AP reports: The comments… Read more »
Reframe ‘information warfare’ to capitalize on democracies’ advantage
Differing views between democracies and autocracies on the role of information in society create an asymmetric information domain. The current contest for this information space—often framed as “information warfare”—plays to… Read more »
COVID-19 ‘infodemic’: West in disarray over autocrats’ ‘battle of narratives’
The West has largely been in disarray in responding to autocratic disinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting calls for the U.S. to launch a “multilateral” initiative with like-minded democracies to… Read more »