The European Union shouldn’t be building strategic, critical dependency on authoritarian regimes such as China, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Friday. Marin spoke as she arrived for the second… Read more »
Brazilian authorities granted the country’s elections chief broad power to order the takedown of online content in a bid to combat soaring misinformation ahead of this month’s election, the Times… Read more »
Global internet freedom fell for the 12th straight year, led by Russia as well as by worsening conditions in Myanmar, Sudan and Libya, says a new report from Freedom House…. Read more »
Democratic complacency in the face of ever-more brazen authoritarianism has brought the world to a perilous juncture, argues Christopher Walker, Vice President for Studies and Analysis at the National Endowment… Read more »
A one-person protest in Beijing (above) has called for elections, an end to the country’s strict “zero covid” policy and the removal of “dictator” Xi Jinping, in a rare display… Read more »
As a lead member of a band of legal activists, Ding Jiaxi, formerly a successful corporate attorney, was practicing a perilous vocation: human rights law in China. Waging a longshot… Read more »
A paranoid fantasy has led many to believe that internet algorithms are undermining democracy. But research on this topic has, in fact, revealed the exact opposite, notes Dylan Selterman Ph.D…. Read more »
The rise of Big Data—the vast digital output of daily life, including data Google and Facebook collect from their users and convert into advertising dollars—is now a matter of national security, according to… Read more »
On Feb. 17, Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) took his seat before the United Nations Security Council and, in strikingly precise terms, offered his version of the immediate future… Read more »
The U.S. Congress is to consider bipartisan legislation to boost funding and modernize methods used to defend democracy abroad, reports suggest. The initiative will establish new authorities and provide additional… Read more »