Media Manipulation
November 12, 2015
The Cost of Doing Business: Sacrificing Freedom of Expression in China
A few weeks ago, Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei received a letter from the Denmark-based Lego Group rejecting his bulk order for the company’s plastic building-block toys, which the...
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November 5, 2015
Fear of the Unknown: Strategic Uncertainty and Self-Censorship
The independent Russian television channel TV Rain’s troubles accelerated with an online poll asking whether, during the Second World War, the Soviet Union ought to have surrendered the city of...
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October 20, 2015
Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia, and Vietnam
This blog post is based on the introduction to a new report—“Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia, and Vietnam”—produced by the International Forum for Democratic...
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July 16, 2015
Authoritarian Media and the Era of Disinformation
“Democracy Ideas” is an interview series conducted by Christopher Walker with leading thinkers on democracy who share their insights on topics such as the ways in which democracy can work...
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July 14, 2015
The Authoritarian Surge into Cyberspace
In the early days of the Internet, it was difficult to imagine how authoritarian regimes could cope with such a powerful source of open information. Today, it is clear that...
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July 9, 2015
Beyond Propaganda: How Authoritarians Disrupt the Global Information Space
It has often been assumed that the era of globalization and the proliferation of communications technologies would foster a more pluralistic global information space in which liberal, democratic ideas would...
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