Lies to Friends, Truths to Strangers? Preference Falsification, Anonymity and Polarization in Authoritarian China

• In Event: Political behavior in authoritarian regimes

Brief Overview

This paper proposes an updated theory of preference falsification in authoritarian regimes in the social media era and tests it with an original dataset of social media political discussion in China using text-as-data methods.

Author

• Haohan Chen, Duke University