by Lucas Aguayo-Garber | May 9, 2022 | Brown University
At the end of last month the Biden administration unveiled a new “Disinformation Board” within the Department of Homeland Security, aimed at attacking online “disinformation” as a national security threat in and of itself. Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has...
by Frances Fields | Nov 30, 2021 | University of Georgia
For 25 years, one of the greatest protections of free speech survived within a law largely created to limit free speech on the Internet. Three years after the Internet became public, the Communications Decency Act of 1996 was passed to prevent certain indecent...
by Devin Molina | May 8, 2021 | Ursinus College
Over the past few decades, Slovenia has shifted dramatically from a socialist state within the Soviet Union. Governments with a history of socialism have been more likely to experience democratic backsliding. Democratic backsliding is defined as state-led debilitation...
by Julianna Rossi | Nov 18, 2020 | University of Chicago
Poland’s media problem began with President Andrzej Duda’s election in 2015. He started with blatant attempts to control the commanding heights of the media, especially public television. Duda accomplished this by directly controlling messages published on TV...