Information Control and Public Support for State Surveillance: Evidence from Social Credit Systems in China

• In Event: Social Media and Politics

Brief Overview

This paper examines public opinion on China’s social credit system (SCS) and finds that exposure to state media increases individuals’ support for the SCS whereas revealing information on the SCS’s repressive potential reduces the support for it.

Authors

• Xun Cao, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus

• Genia Kostka, Freie Universität Berlin

• Xu Xu, Stanford University