Generative language models have improved drastically, and can now produce realistic text
outputs that are difficult to distinguish from human-written content. For malicious actors …

Executive summary 2023 marked the 75th anniversary of the UN's Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. The Universal Declaration articulates an inspiring vision of a world that is …

At the end of October 2022, Elon Musk concluded his acquisition of Twitter. In the weeks and
months before that, several questions were publicly discussed that were not only of interest …

Protest has long been associated with left-wing actors and left-wing causes. However, right-
wing actors also engage in protest. Are right-wing actors mobilized by the same factors as …

There is a significant amount of research that analyzes the consequences of repression on
social movement mobilization. Yet most studies do not examine the strategic agency of …

Government censorship—internet shutdowns, blockages, firewalls—impose significant
barriers to the transnational flow of information despite the connective power of digital …

What is the role of digital media in contentious politics? On the one hand, digital media plays
a central role in informing the public and organizing political movements. On the other hand …

Much of the focus of cyber conflict has been on interstate conflict. This article focuses on two
interrelated questions in the important but neglected area of cyber contentious politics. First …

As audiences have moved to digital media, so too have governments around the world.
While previous research has focused on how authoritarian regimes employ strategies such …

The early hopes of the internet as a technology of “liberation” have turned into a reinforcing
spiral of control, innovation, resistance, and counter-innovation between authoritarian …