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Democracy and the Press: Netanyahu’s Threat to Media Freedom

by Jaylee Pace | Dec 5, 2025 | University of Georgia

Israeli Government Structure Israel has a parliamentary democracy with a unicameral legislature, known as the Knesset, where citizens elect political parties rather than individuals. This system is proportionally representative, meaning it produces a multiparty...

How to Control What You Cannot Have: China’s Strategic Use of Disinformation to Undermine Taiwanese Democracy

by Isabella Yan | May 6, 2025 | Featured, Tulane University

We understand democratic erosion as democratically elected leaders eroding the mechanisms of fair democracy after entering office. What happens when the threat is external? As the percentage of citizens who identify as “Taiwanese” instead of “Chinese” grows, so do the...

Disinformation and war : How the Violent War in Ukraine Illustrates the Power of Disinformation 1

by Davonte Hardaway | Apr 27, 2025 | University of Memphis

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, information warfare has become as crucial as military strategy on the ground. Government officials, state-backed media outlets, and online propagandists have pushed divergent claims about events ranging from...

Fake News For Profit: The Disinformation Goldrush

by Talia Yett | Dec 3, 2024 | Brown University

As the 2016 US Presidential election approached, ‘fake news’ surged across the internet, with hundreds of pro-Trump websites shared by millions of people. At least 100 of these sites have been traced to Veles, a town of 41,000 in the Balkan nation of North Macedonia....

Censorship and Deception: How Social Media Controls Fuel Misinformation in Turkey

by nunez.146@osu.edu | Nov 4, 2024 | Ohio State University

In August of this year Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority blocked the social media platform Instagram as an effort to regulate access to the internet. With the rapid blocking of Instagram, a platform with over 50 million Turkish users out of...
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