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The CCP’s Global Censorship Campaign – and How NED’s Partners Break Through
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is among the world’s most systematic suppressors of free speech. For many PRC citizens and diaspora members—not to mention citizens of other countries around the world—last month’s anniversary of...
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 cybercrime laws have emerged as...
Getting Ahead of Digital Repression: Authoritarian Innovation and Democratic Response
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 Forum for Democratic Studies held a closed-door,...
Twenty-First Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture: Serhii Plokhii on “David vs. Goliath: Democracy and Autocracy in the Russo-Ukrainian War”
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Breaking Through: How Citizens Are Fighting Modern...
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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 on Emergent Digital Repression: How the...
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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.DOWNLOAD FORUM BROCHURE
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Data-Centric Authoritarianism: How China's Development of Frontier Technologies Could Globalize Repression
A new report authored by Valentin Weber reviews four key data-centric technologies whose development could fortify Beijing’s tech-enabled authoritarian governance model and offers seven critical steps democracies and civil society must take to ensure a more democratic digital future.
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The Struggle Against Authoritarian Influence in the Western Balkans: Montenegro as a Test Case
A new report authored by Vanja Ćalović Marković explores how Montenegro has become an ideal testing ground for authoritarian actors, and how lessons learned from these influence experiments can be applied by authoritarian actors globally.
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Fighting Kleptocracy in an Era of Geopolitics
In a new International Forum report, Ben Judah analyzes how the counter-kleptocracy agenda intersects with, and is at times superseded by, competing geopolitical priorities.
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Leveraging AI for Democracy: Civic Innovation on the New Digital Playing Field
A new report by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outlines possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI.
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