Disinformation, Censorship, and Democratic Backsliding

• In Event: Media, Censorship and Disinformation Across Regime Types

Brief Overview

This paper argues and finds that advances in telecommunication in the last 20 years provide authoritarian opportunists with the means to seize power through elections and to undermine democratic institutions once in power.

Authors

• Myles Einhorn, Johns Hopkins University

• Terence K Teo, Seton Hall University