British diplomats have been promoting an initiative to create a new forum of the world’s leading democracies, the D-10, designed to push back against growing authoritarianism, analyst Ben Judah writes… Read more »
The bad news about disinformation? Research has shown it spreads faster than truth. Conspiracies fueled by misinformation can have potent, lasting impacts on individuals’ trust in science, and beliefs rooted in misinformation are often felt… Read more »
We live in a new reality: America can no longer dictate events as we sometimes believed we could, especially given the damage to its values, image, and influence, argues… Read more »
Lessons from the Polish Opposition by Jacek Rostowski @ProSyn https://t.co/gqWHgarDUK — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 13, 2020 Although Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski did not come out on top… Read more »
If the past century has shown us anything, it is that dangerous ideologies backed by powerful states rarely confine their malign conduct within their own borders, argues national security adviser… Read more »
Still standing: How Vladimir Putin maintains his support https://t.co/k5b4burBOO — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 10, 2020 As Russians cast ballots in a tightly managed vote on constitutional changes that… 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 »
China is attempting to re-brand its Confucius Institutes following a worldwide backlash against the centers, analyst Zachary Evans writes for National Review: Confucius Institutes, which are present on dozens of U.S…. Read more »
Given current illiberal threats to democracy “it is easy to conjecture a Weimar Republic landscape breeding national populist types. Perhaps too easy,” analysts Levy Yeyati and Andres Malamud recently wrote… 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 »