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Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
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Authoritarian Regimes: Media Systems & Landscapes
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Conflicts, Conflict Prevention & Management, Mediation, Peacebuilding
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Extremist & Terrorist Digital / Social Media Presence
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War Propaganda, Propaganda in Conflicts
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Big Digital Platforms, Big Tech Companies
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Social Media in Political Communication
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Content Moderation & Regulation: Social Media
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Twitter & Microblogs
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YouTube
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Countering Hate Speech, Disinformation & Propaganda
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Deepfakes (Realistic-Looking Media Content that has been Modified, Generated or Falsified Using AI)
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Human Rights Protection
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Jihad
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Deepfakes – When We Can No Longer Believe Our Eyes and Ears. Media Manipulation in Conflict: Challenges and Responses
Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2023), 6 pp.
"Deception and media manipulation have always been an integral part of wartime propaganda. But never before has it been so easy to create high-quality fabrications of images as well as sound and video recordings. The tendency to react emotionally to these media opens up a whole new possibility for a
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Content Moderation in autoritären Staaten: Wie soziale Medien zu Komplizen autoritärer Herrscher zu werden drohen
Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2022), 8 pp.
"Täglich gibt es Berichte darüber, wie private Betreiber sozialer Medien sich problematischen Vorgaben autoritärer Herrscher beugen. Ob in Thailand, Kasachstan oder Russland, immer wieder werden als Teil von Content Moderation (CM) gezielt Inhalte entfernt oder Konten gelöscht, weil Regierungen
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Counterpublics, Attitudes, and Social Change in Authoritarian Regimes: An Analysis of Digital Communities on Russian YouTube
Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2020), 31 pp.
"By examining Russian YouTube, this article has attempted to show how in this particular digital environment a shift in social attitudes and the emergence of counterpublics are likely to occur, thus advancing a bottom-up approach to social change. The paper has proceeded in three steps. The first se
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#HashtagSolidarities: Twitter Debates and Networks in the MENA Region
Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2016), 62 pp.
"This study identified three local or subregional incidents that led to heated debates on Twitter: a video shared on Twitter of the sexual assault of a woman on Cairo’s Tahrir Square in June 2014, anti-fracking protests in southern Algeria in early 2015, and Saudi Arabia’s military intervention
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