by Hatice Betul Cim | Jan 6, 2023 | Sabanci University
Following the 2020 presidential election results in favor of Lukashenko, Belarusians move to the streets demanding free and fair elections and democracy. However, this resulted in increasing state repression, police violence, and deeper authoritarianism. Belarus...
by Merdan Rozyyev | Jan 5, 2023 | Sabanci University
Turkey has recently enacted a new law on media disinformation, which has sparked widespread concern and criticism from human rights organizations, media freedom advocates, and international bodies such as the United Nations. This is because its definitions of...
by Bengisu Gulsen Kosarhan | Jan 5, 2023 | Sabanci University
Kate Crawford in her book Atlas of AI argues that AI “grew on the battlefield where it was used to detect enemies, strange objects and maintain strategic control”. [1]The technology to which we created for military usage therefore inherently used for...
by Ali Cevat Ulubas | Dec 27, 2022 | Sabanci University
Blog Post The Case of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Elon Musk recently bought Twitter, a social media platform that has over 200 million users worldwide. After his purchase Musk announced a couple of new measures such as “relaxing content restrictions, combating fake and...
by Declan Busche | Dec 20, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
Democratic Erosion and a Coup in Myanmar Myanmar, or Burma, is a Southeast Asian country that neighbors Thailand. It is a nation now-controlled by its military. Prior to February 2021, Myanmar was a newly democratic government, one that was developing relationships...