Congress and the Biden administration are weighing various legislative and executive actions to ban TikTok, a social media platform with approximately 150 million US users. However, broad restrictions on TikTok…
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated the digitization of Southeast Asian economies and presented promising opportunities in the e-commerce sector. Having a good digital identity…
Russia’s 2016 election interference operation challenged dominant assumptions about the nature of cyber conflict. That operation and others like it mark the emergence of what the authors call “masspersonal social…
This article considers the ways that journalists cover cybersecurity incidents and convey technical material to general audiences. It describes how journalists have provided increasingly detailed and technical descriptions of these…
On September 7, 2021, El Salvador became the first country to introduce bitcoin as legal tender after swift approval of the law only three months prior. However, Salvadoran citizens, multilateral…
The American public is gaining a greater understanding of the deleterious effects that social media is having on society and the unhealthy concentration of power that rests with tech giants…
Outright deplatforming and suppression of religiously and ideologically motivated extremist users, groups, and content does not appear to effectively curb their influence or prevent the radicalization of new users. This…
With the rise of internet access across South and Southeast Asia, online hate speech and false rumors have become new drivers of domestic conflict in the region. Online hate speech…
This article is the second installment of a two-part interview. As American and European governments propose new rules to regulate the growing monopoly power of technology giants,…
A new Georgetown report examines the problem of information operations and disinformation during election season and beyond. Thanks to better preparation and less aggressive attempts of outside interference,…
