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Channel 4 News/YouTube British MPs said fake news, hypertargeted advertising, and manipulation are threatening democracy. Damian Collins MP called on the UK government to take urgent action and impose stricter regulation on tech firms to tackle the problem. Collins is chair of a UK committee which has been investigating the issue of fake news over […]
Illiberal “Christian democracy” will replace multiculturalism after the European Parliament vote in 2019, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has predicted, adding that the EU elite have failed the people and should step down. The European Parliamentary elections in May 2019 will decide the fate of the European “elite” and they’re “visibly nervous” about it, Orban […]
Artificial intelligence has without question been a menace to modern democratic society. Malicious bots interfered in the 2016 presidential election in the United States, and meddled in Mexican elections held earlier this week. Perhaps even more alarming is a study published last month that found that the majority of people in democratic societies…Read More
The European Union fancies as a champion of ‘democracy,’ but its action show this doesn’t cover dissenting views, whether from an Eurosceptic party in Italy, austerity-hating Greeks, or any folks voting against its grand plans. Concerns about Europe’s disregard for the opinions of normal, non-technocrat, non-banker people have bubbled to the surface of social media […]
The newly-imposed ban on Russian media outlets in Ukraine limits freedom of expression and undermines democracy in the country, Rachel Denber, deputy director for Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Europe and Central Asia, said. “The Ukrainian government’s sanctioning of Russian state media outlets is part of a series of measures it has taken that limit […]
US democracy is being degraded as Washington is using all means to maintain its global hegemony, even those measures that harm the American people, Moscow has said, reacting to the new round of anti-Russian sanctions. “The American democracy is clearly being degraded. [Its only] desire is to ensure by all means that US global hegemony […]
Enlarge / UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong is an expert on tech revolutions and long-term economic trends, as well as social democracy. (credit: Brad DeLong) Right now, the US tech economy is booming, but what will be the long-term effects of automation and AI? Are robots about to steal our jobs? Will Facebook throw […]
Mark Wilson/Getty Slate’s James Traub discusses several thinkers’ theories on how democracy could fall — and how those theories apply to today’s political climate. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue in their book, “How Democracies Die,” that functioning democracies depend on two things: mutual tolerance and forbearance. Based on these “norms,” our current state is […]
Steve Helber/Getty Images President Donald Trump said it was “a great day” on Friday, not long after FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe was fired, just hours away from his retirement. Trump also railed against former FBI director James Comey, whom he called “sanctimonious.” After his termination was announced, McCabe said he was being “singled out” […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images Former President Barack Obama lamented the current state of political discourse in the US, saying social-media platforms like Facebook and Google are “shaping our culture in powerful ways.” Obama made the off-the-record comments at an MIT conference on Friday. The former president is the highest-profile figure to publicly challenge tech giants to […]
