The Fundamental Freedoms Today: Views from the Frontlines of Repression
Sign Up Here to Recieve Information on Forthcoming Essays in This Series! A New Essay Collection From the Forum “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the...
Testing the Limits: China and Russia’s Authoritarian Influence at Scale...
By Kevin Sheives, Alexander Cooley, Caroline Costello, William Nee, and Florindo Chivucute Table of Contents Executive Summary A New, More Permissive Context for Authoritarian Influence at Scale / Kevin Sheives...
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.
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...
Defending Democratic Norms in Global Tech Governance
In the UN system and beyond, authoritarian maneuvers and democratic disillusionment are fundamentally challenging the participatory, multistakeholder models that have so far prevailed in governing digital technologies....
Stronger Together: Coalitions as a Catalyst for Information Integrity
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT A new report authored by Tim Niven explores how sweeping changes in the information environment are advancing the efforts of authoritarians in the information space and how coalitions provide...
Foreign Agents Laws
Silencing Civil Society through Stigmatizing Narratives: A Conversation with Gina Romero The growing trend of “foreign agents” laws have targeted prodemocratic civil society groups and activists...
Forum Q&A: Irene Mwendwa on Women, Data, and Democracy
As AI technologies assume increasingly prominent roles in everyday life and government decision-making, building representative tools that reflect democratic values is more important than ever. Doing so will...
Leveraging AI for Democracy: Civic Innovation on the New Digital Playing...
DOWNLOAD THE COLLECTION A new report by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outlines possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI. summary Like social media before them, new AI tools promise...
Getting Ahead of Digital Repression: Authoritarian Innovation and Democratic...
In April 2024, the Hoover Institution’s project on China’s Global Sharp Power, Stanford University’s Global Digital Policy Incubator, and the National Endowment for Democracy’s International...
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