Democracies have long claimed to have several advantages over authoritarian regimes – such as sound governance and effectiveness in wartime – based on the open marketplace of ideas and freedom… Read more »
#Lebanon civil society faces far stiffer opposition today than anything the embattled Syrians could mount in 2005, notes Shlomo Ben-Ami @ProSyn https://t.co/JEgTq79GFQ — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 11, 2020… Read more »
THE interaction @Ostrov_A and I had with @Twitter’s representative during the Knesset hearing that exposed the double standards on their platform. #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate #AdoptIHRA pic.twitter.com/l5pD55XHSL — מיכל קוטלר-וונש – Michal… Read more »
Disinformed to Death https://t.co/DFOqGBbXwm via @nybooks — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 3, 2020 For the better part of four years, those sounding the alarm about the dangers of fake news… Read more »
The pressing challenges that, from Latin America to East Asia, are shaping the balance between democracy and authoritarianism is the focus of the just-released July 2020 issue of the NED’s… Read more »
The U.S. Department of Energy has determined that Cuba and Venezuela are “foreign adversaries” that might target the U.S. electrical grid, The Miami Herald reports: The executive order aims… 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 »
Disinformation sows doubt and confusion in democratic systems, notes Moira Whelan, the National Democratic Institute’s Director of Technology and Democracy. That’s why NDI supports partners’ efforts to create tools to… Read more »
Coronavirus disinformation published by Chinese and Russian state media outlets in France, Spain, and Germany is in some cases reaching a greater audience on social media than news coverage of… Read more »