Democracy and the Next Big App: Three Questions for Assessing Risk
By Dean Jackson and Rachelle Faust In April 2020, TikTok surpassed two billion global downloads. That June, the …
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Parallel Platforms, Parallel Principles: The Emergence of Social Media from Authoritarian Settings
By Dean Jackson On August 19, 2019, Twitter and Facebook announced for the first time that they had …
Social Media and Risks to Digital Freedom: A Conversation with Ronald J. Deibert
In this episode of the Power 3.0 podcast, featured guest Ronald J. Deibert discusses the dramatic shift in …
Troll Up Your Sleeves: Using Research to Uncover State-Sponsored Harassment Online
By Nick Monaco The abuse of modern telecommunications technologies by governments is capturing headlines the world over: the …
The Imitation Game: Will China’s Investments Reshape Africa’s Internet?
By Emeka Umejei At the 2018 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit, delegations from fifty-three African countries gathered …
China’s Ambitions in Artificial Intelligence: A Challenge to the Future of Democracy?
By Elsa B. Kania Although artificial intelligence (AI) has immense potential for good, its rapid advance is also …