Twenty-Second Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture | Leopoldo...
05:45 PM - 07:00 PM
The 2025 Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World will be delivered by Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan prodemocracy activist and cofounder of the World Liberty Congress.
EVENT RECAP: Breaking Through: How Citizens Are Fighting Modern Authoritarian...
Authoritarian regimes worldwide are intensifying their crackdown on independent voices—silencing dissent, restricting access to information, and punishing those who refuse to conform. On September...
Breaking Through: How Citizens Are Fighting Modern Authoritarian...
09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
The National Endowment for Democracy hosts a discussion on how authoritarian regimes deploy censorship and “sharp power” tactics to silence free expression worldwide—and how democracies can respond.
China Salon Event Recap: How the PRC Is Using AI to Censor, Surveil, and...
In China today, AI can censor a million online posts in less than a second and generate convincing propaganda at a keystroke. At the latest in the China Salon series of events hosted by the National Endowment...
China Salon on Emergent Digital Repression: How the PRC...
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
The National Endowment for Democracy hosts a discussion on how large language models (LLMs) and other advanced AI developments fit into the PRC’s wider apparatus of digital repression and worldwide influence projection.
Update from the International Forum for Democratic Studies
Friends of the Forum, We’re writing to let you know that, due to the inability to access Congressionally appropriated funds for NED, the International Forum for Democratic Studies will be suspending activities...
Data-Centric Authoritarianism: How China’s Development of Frontier...
A new report reviews key data-centric technologies whose development could fortify Beijing’s tech-enabled authoritarian governance model.
Forum Focus: January 2025
Regular news from the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies on global challenges facing democracy around the world.
Digital Directions: December 2024
By Maya Recanati and Nick Nunez| Edited by Beth Kerley and Adam Fivenson Bimonthly insights on the evolving relationships among digital technologies, information integrity, and democracy from the International...
Big Question: How Are Cybercrime Laws Weaponized to Legalize Repression?
Edited by Maya Recanati and Beth Kerley Across the globe, autocrats are working to quash dissent online through a combination of domestic legal tools and digital surveillance. In particular, vaguely worded...
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