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Podcast: Threatscape - Mapping global risks in a changing world
Episode: Digital Authoritarianism Report Launch: current and future trends with Jessica Brandt, Brookings
Description: Authoritarian governments leverage digital technologies to repress the rights and freedoms of their citizens at home, silence dissent among diasporas and other individuals beyond their borders, and to interfere in democratic governments, processes and institutions abroad.Â
As part of MIGS Digital Authoritarianism project supported by U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, we hosted a Twitter Spaces with Jessica Brandt, the author of MIGS' report "Digital Authoritarianism: Pathways, Trends, Solutions." This is a recording of our chat.
This paper aims to increase understanding of the various pathways through which authoritarian regimes use digital tools to shore up t...