Social Media and Democracy: Three Painful Truths
By Ronald J. Deibert Once it was conventional wisdom to assume that social media would enable greater access …
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Not the Droids You’re Looking For: Bots and the Weaponization of Star Wars
By Dean Jackson It is a period of authoritarian resurgence. Russian agents, striking from a hidden base (or …
Fighting Fiction: Countering Disinformation through Election Monitoring
By Julia Brothers Elections, the sine qua non of democracy and fundamental cornerstone of political accountability to the …
The Disinformation Crisis and the Erosion of Truth
By Dean Jackson In a famous 1927 defense of free speech, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote …
Introducing Power 3.0: Reevaluating Authoritarianism in an Era of Globalization
By Shanthi Kalathil In late November 2017, the Financial Times reported that the Chinese government had instructed foreign-funded …
The Authoritarian Capture of Social Media
By Peter Kreko The beginning of the twenty-first century was dominated by overwhelming consensus that the internet was …