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 »
The Global Monitor of COVID-19´s Impact on Democracy and Human Rights is a one-stop platform that facilitates public access to knowledge, data, analysis, and policy guidance on the implications of… Read more »
The democracy assistance community is mourning the passing of Lorne W. Craner, the longest-serving president of the International Republican Institute (IRI). “Lorne embodied the vision of President Ronald Reagan,… Read more »
This is a moment for critics of socially irresponsible media companies to take on platforms that enable foreign interference, provide a megaphone for extremists and hate groups and make herding people into… Read more »
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 »
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 »
While the coronavirus pandemic is many stresses that afflict democracy in Europe, it is also propelling democratic efforts in a number of areas, notes Richard Youngs, a senior fellow in the… Read more »
Vladimir Putin’s regime has instituted a “pretend party system” in which real political groups, with popular leaders and a genuine support base, are denied a license, replaced by impostors who… Read more »
Charlemagne – Europe’s “Sinatra doctrine” on China https://t.co/QQDHFrbrUW — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) June 11, 2020 The European Union is treating China as a geopolitical chimera, The Economist observes: In 2019… Read more »
This is an extraordinarily tense moment in the United States as authoritarian states jeer at us, and friends pity us, says Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy at the… Read more »