Inside the formidable grassroots operation of India’s BJP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has built one of the most efficient electoral machines in modern democratic politics. Read More Here
Tag: social media
Governments Must Shape AI’s Future
As with social media, the incentives around AI are aligned for rent extraction, where large companies, acting as intermediaries, amass profits at others’ expense. Governments urgently need to step in to ensure that the technology is being designed and brought to market in ways that will serve the common good. Read More Here
The Myth of Social Media and Populism
Why the moral panic is misplaced. Read More Here
Credibility Crisis: How to Save Social Media From Itself
The crisis of content credibility on social media platforms can be solved through self-regulation and trust-building mechanisms. Read More Here
How Facebook Became The Opium Of The Masses
Around the world, Facebook has been used to sow distrust in democratic institutions, and its algorithms have facilitated real-world violence, even genocide. Regulating the use of algorithms that micro-target users would be a first step toward ending the barrage of disinformation the company has unleashed. Read More Here
An ‘Alt-Jihad’ Is Rising On Social Media
The playbook of the “alt-right” is guiding a new generation of fringe jihadists, showing just how complicated extremism is about to become online. Read More Here
The Political Effects Of Social Media Platforms On Different Regime Types
Fake news has gained prevalence in recent years due to the rising role of social media platforms as news outlets, where content can be produced and relayed among users with no significant third-party filtering, fact-checking, or editorial judgment. Read More Here
The Political Effects of Social Media Platforms On Different Regime Types
The use of social media has no single preordained outcome. These platforms cannot “bring the world closer together,” as Facebook’s mission states, and help connect only democracy-loving people. Read More Here
Mocking India’s Health Crisis Reflects The CCP’s Wicked Thinking And Hurts China’s Soft Power
The coronavirus outbreak in China in late 2019, which killed thousands there, saw people across the globe expressing solidarity with the Chinese. Now the virus is still creating worldwide havoc, and some Chinese prefer to derive sadistic pleasure from others’ agony. For example, on social media the ruling China Communist Party (CCP) mocked COVID-19 deaths […]
The Real Target Of Authoritarian Disinformation
What is still often missed, however, is that most state-sponsored social media disinformation campaigns are aimed at domestic rather than foreign audiences. The old adage attributed to former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill that “all politics is local” doesn’t quite describe the disinformation wars playing out on Twitter and Facebook—but it comes close. […]
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