Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...

Read our new report The Internet Coup.

The Great Firewall Export investigation is a joint collaboration with @amnesty.org, @papertrailmedia.de, @justiceformyanmar.org, @theglobeandmail.com,
@ftm.eu, @derstandard.at and @torproject.org

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🚞 Now I'm on my way home from the fantastic #WomenInPolMeth Summer school in Bremen. Learned lots and met awesome like-minded folks 🫶 From web scraping to LLMs, we covered it all!

Many thanks to the organizers @gessler.bsky.social, @sophiahunger.bsky.social and bsky-less Sophia and Jelena!

It's been a busy July so far!

☀️ It was great to first attend the Barcelona School of Economics Summer School, where I learned lots about Statistical Machine Learning for Large and Unstructured Data 👩‍💻

Now that Assad is out, can Syrians finally enjoy their social + economic rights?

@marwasf.bsky.social + @kassemmnejja.bsky.social explain what it takes to rebuild Syria’s digital future — and why it’s the backbone of recovery.

Read more 🔽
www.accessnow.org/syria-sancti...

Call for Papers!

📢 6th Annual Digital Democracy Workshop
🏫 University of Zurich
📅 13-14 November 2025
⏳ Deadline to submit paper abstracts: 31 May 2025

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