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- 🔊How does a regime switch off the Internet? Can blackouts backfire on dictators? What are the warning signs for citizens of rising digital repression in their own country? @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social joins @lizzieohreally.bsky.social on @slate.com's What Next: TBD podcast⤵️
- 🆕Can street protests—like those in Minneapolis—actually slow democratic erosion? @saskiabr.bsky.social lays out the 3 features of impactful protest: nonviolence, broad coalitions, and long-term, institutional action. Today for @foreignpolicy.com ⤵️
- Over the past 20 years, digital repression has spread dramatically, as shown in 2 maps by @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social In 2004 (left), countries with above-average levels of digital repression were clustered in a belt. By 2024 (right) digital repression had spread and worsened.🧵⤵️
- Activists are fighting back against these authoritarian strategies with new tools like Bitchat and Starlink, write @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social and Shreya Joshi. Read their analysis: thebulletin.org/2026/01/iran...
- And check out more data from @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social's Digital Repression Index👇
- Oil revenues can restart Venezuela’s economy—but without transparency, rule of law, and political reform, they could also freeze repression in place. Economic recovery needs a democratic horizon, @jennifermccoy.bsky.social writes for @carnegieendowment.org ⬇️
- 🆕"Africa’s democratic landscape defies a single story of systemic backsliding or reform—and instead is best understood as a collection of diverging and still unsettled trajectories." @saskiabr.bsky.social and Frances Brown identify four governance trends to watch for in Africa this year⤵️
- "If Europe is as serious about preventing Ukraine’s defeat as it now appears to be, a coordinated long-term strategy will do more to help Kyiv...than its current practice of lurching from one aid package to another." Read the latest from @sophiabesch.bsky.social 🔽
- New @foreignaffairs.com piece out today with Eric Ciaramella on the future of Fortress Ukraine. Gift link here: www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/fort...
