May 10, 2021

Op-Ed: Authoritarian States are Using COVID Vaccines to Subvert Democracy

By Kevin Sheives and Ryan Arick

In the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, China and Russia are engaged in a diplomatic offensive to gain maximum advantage from the global distribution of their vaccines. In a May 8 opinion piece for Nikkei Asia, International Forum for Democratic...

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May 6, 2021

Using the Truth to Tell a Lie: Authoritarian COVID-19 Vaccine Mal-Information Strategies

By Jessica Brandt and Bret Schafer

Over the past year, the regimes in Russia, China, and Iran have used a combination of public diplomacy, propaganda, and overt and covert disinformation campaigns to portray their respective responses to the pandemic as superior to those of the West. This tactic is...

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March 25, 2021

Democracy and the Next Big App: Three Questions for Assessing Risk

By Dean Jackson and Rachelle Faust

In April 2020, TikTok surpassed two billion global downloads. That June, the Indian government...

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March 9, 2021

How to Help Civil Society’s Disinformation Researchers Flourish

By Rachelle Faust and Daniel Cebul

Disinformation has become big news. In 2019, the Oxford Internet Institute identified media reporting on organized social...

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December 24, 2020

Power 3.0 – 2020 Year-End Reading Recommendations

This is the time of year to relax, catch up on reading, and recharge our brains for the new year. As 2020 comes to a close, we're highlighting some of the most impactful pieces recommended to us and written by our blog authors and podcast guests, as well as other influential thinkers.

The International...

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