Polarization for Paralysis: How Authoritarian Regimes Weaponize Information to Shift Foreign Political Behaviors

• In Event: Shaping What People Think and Feel (and Dare to Say)

Brief Overview

We provide experimental evidence on how authoritarian states use factual news contents –not fake new –to exacerbate polarization among voters in foreign target states, shift voters’ political preferences and preempt hostile winning coalitions.

Authors

• Noel Foster, Princeton University

• Zenobia Chan, Princeton University