Under the guise of ‘guiding public opinion’, a policy concept that dates back to the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) justifies its manipulation of information… Read more »
A Belarusian court has sentenced a businessman to 15 years in prison for administering more than two dozen social media chats on protests that followed a disputed presidential election in August… Read more »
Misinformation is about to get worse, says former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Many people believe that the lying in misinformation on social media should be prohibited, but he doesn’t… Read more »
How can the West combat disinformation without curbing its own free speech? This was one of the questions raised in this week’s CEPA forum on Resilience in the Face of Authoritarianism…. Read more »
One of the most deeply upsetting charts I’ve ever seen. From this harrowing AP investigative report about China forcing birth control on Uighurs in Xinjiang to suppress their population growth:… Read more »
Hungary’s parliament endorsed a bill on Monday giving nationalist premier Viktor Orban the sweeping new powers he says he needs to fight the new coronavirus pandemic. Critics at home and… Read more »
Given all the data that can be gathered by smartphones and sensors, with more to come, the Economist asks in a recent issue whether artificial-intelligence systems could one day “replace the autonomous… Read more »
The decline of U.S. leadership represents a hard blow to democracy support efforts, but it does not signal their demise, argues Thomas Carothers, a leading authority on international support for… Read more »
Sudan’s military authorities are shutting down the Internet in an effort to suffocate the current pro-democracy protest movement. Internet shutdowns are not new, but they have become increasingly popular instrument… Read more »
New research from Comparitech (see infographic below), the tech firm which recently reported on China’s Great Firewall, explains how people use social media to share political news and the associated… Read more »