Democracy has been specified as the fundamental reason for the long-unseen historical record of the reign of peace. Today, the world is experiencing a major threat to democracy after the third wave of …
Is There Any Hope Left for Belarus? 2020 Election Protests in “the Last Dictatorship in Europe”
Following the 2020 presidential election results in favor of Lukashenko, Belarusians move to the streets demanding free and fair elections and democracy. However, this resulted in increasing state …
Turkey’s New “Media Disinformation Law” is a Threat to democracy
Turkey has recently enacted a new law on media disinformation, which has sparked widespread concern and criticism from human rights organizations, media freedom advocates, and international bodies …
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A New World Order? Digital Authoritarianism
Kate Crawford in her book Atlas of AI argues that AI “grew on the battlefield where it was used to detect enemies, strange objects and maintain strategic control”. [1]The technology to which we …
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Is it Elon Musk, Twitter, or the Already Growing Populism in the US?
Blog Post The Case of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Elon Musk recently bought Twitter, a social media platform that has over 200 million users worldwide. After his purchase Musk announced a couple …
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Democratic Erosion and a Coup in Myanmar
Democratic Erosion and a Coup in Myanmar Myanmar, or Burma, is a Southeast Asian country that neighbors Thailand. It is a nation now-controlled by its military. Prior to February 2021, Myanmar was …
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Free Speech, Social Media, and Elections: A Factor Analysis
Context On December 2nd, Elon Musk retweeted a thread which was posted at Musk’s behest by Matt Taibbi, called The “Twitter Files.” The thread details the censorship Twitter executives engaged in …
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The Uphill Battle for Democracy in Vietnam
On June 23rd 2022, Phan Huu Diep Anh, a Facebook user living in Ho Chi Minh City, was sentenced to one and a half years in prison on the charge of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on State and …
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