Power 3.0: Understanding Modern Authoritarian Influence - Exploring how savvy authoritarian governments survive and thrive in a globalized information age, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge.

June 3, 2020

The Changing Global Media Landscape (Part I): A Conversation with Jamie Fly

In this episode of the Power 3.0 podcast, featured guest Jamie Fly discusses mounting pressures facing independent media outlets around the world, ranging from intensifying economic constraints resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, to increased competition from ambitious authoritarian and illiberal actors...

June 2, 2020

Data vs. the Disease? COVID-19 and Surveillance Technologies

By Rachelle Faust

COVID-19 has spread indiscriminately across the globe, infecting millions and bringing industries to a grinding halt. Faced with an unprecedented global health crisis, national and local governments have scrambled to identify effective strategies for understanding, tracking, and...

May 26, 2020

Converging Chinese and Russian Disinformation Compounds Threat to Democracy

By Andrea Kendall-Taylor and David Shullman

In recent weeks the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda and disinformation blitz around COVID-19 has drawn increasing attention, and with good reason. In addition to promoting a narrative about Beijing’s global leadership around the pandemic, the...

May 19, 2020

Beijing’s Mask Diplomacy and Power Plays in Europe: A Conversation with Lucrezia Poggetti

In this episode of the Power 3.0 podcast, featured guest Lucrezia Poggetti discusses the evolving dynamics of Beijing’s influence operations in the European Union—and in her own native Italy—in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how various European audiences have reacted to China’s “mask...

May 1, 2020

Why Disinformation Targeting Women Undermines Democratic Institutions

By Lucina Di Meco

As countries adopt strict social distancing policies aimed at preventing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, female political activists and politicians are increasingly turning to social media as one of the only channels available to communicate with their constituencies.

Many...