Freedom on the Net 2017 Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy : November 2017 The authors of this report are Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp, and Jessica White, of the Freedom of the Net project .-- Whasthinton ; New York Freedom House 2017 .-- 48 p.



Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice has since gone global. Such state-led interventions present a major threat to the notion of the internet as a liberating technology.

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Derechos digitales


country
freedom
Internet
social media


Earp, Madeline
Kelly, Sanja
Shahbaz, Adrian
Truong, Mai


Freedom House