Media Ownership, Reporting Bias, and Civic Space in Democracies: Cross-National Evidence from the Machine Learning for Peace Corpus (2012-2025)

• In Event: Media, Information, and Democracy

Brief Overview

Media ownership takeovers have become a key tool of aspiring autocratizers. We provide the first systematic evidence of their impact on what media cover and how, using Machine Learning on millions of news articles from 300+ sources in 44 countries.

Authors

• Ezgi Ecem Yılmaz, University of Pennsylvania

• Erik Wibbels, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen