This paper examines the practices, performance, and perceptions of the messaging platform
Telegram as an actor in the 2020 Belarus protests, using publicly available data from …

On 1 January 2017, a Russian federal law (№ 208-FZ) came into force that holds news
aggregators liable for spreading fake news. Links to news items that originate from …

How are extensive internet control, surveillance and restricted online anonymity
reconceptualized into virtues of effective state governance, rather than violations of civic …

The Russian Orthodox Church, the largest and most powerful religious institution in Russia,
has become one of the central pillars of Vladimir Putin's authoritarianism. While church …

Russia has been coaxing foreign Internet companies into building the Yarovaya-Law
infrastructure, by listing them as “information disseminators”. This infrastructure, aimed at …

Abstract In Russia, since 2011, the Yandex. News aggregator (Yandex. Novosti)—the
Russian equivalent to Google News—has been suspected of political bias in the context of …

Research on modern 'Russian propaganda'has been rapidly growing in recent years. It has
examined information disorder activities organised, allegedly, by actors formally or …

Technological corporations and the digital services they provide play an increasingly
important role in the production and dissemination of news, eg, through media's growing …

Digital authoritarianism threatens the privacy and rights of Internet users worldwide, yet
scholarship on this topic remains limited in analytical power and case selection. In this …

A significant part of far-right activities worldwide take place within the media ecosystem
formed by accounts and communities on social media platforms. Drawing on the media …