Using Taiwan’s most recent elections as an example to elucidate the nature of Chinese propaganda and disinformation, a new report identifies China’s motives, tactics, and actors in its foreign information… Read more »
Democracy and Decency by Chris Patten @ProSyn https://t.co/2znlCO1ner — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 20, 2020 Whatever their Western apologists may claim, Russia and China are clearly trying to… Read more »
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 »
Still standing: How Vladimir Putin maintains his support https://t.co/k5b4burBOO — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 10, 2020 As Russians cast ballots in a tightly managed vote on constitutional changes that… Read more »
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 »
After writing on @Independent and @DailyMailUK, here my latest op-ed on @TheSun . Visually attractive design with an enlightening quote: “warn the world of China’s brutal regime.” Let’s work… Read more »
While a recent global initiative cautioned that autocrats are exploiting the pandemic to erode democratic values and institutions, COVID-19 may yet allow the “re-imagining and strengthening of democracy” through innovative… Read more »
The question the U.S. is likely to face is not whether to restore the liberal international order. It is whether the US can work with an inner core of allies… Read more »
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 »
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is facing one of the worst coronavirus epidemics in the world, an ongoing corruption investigation, and a procession of ministers deserting his cabinet. To top… Read more »