NEW REPORT | Deepening the Response to the PRC’s “data-centric authoritarianism”, @weberv_ at @lseideas explores 4 frontier technologies and how they could help the PRC globalize repression: 🧵.

Russia has recently intensified its attacks on Ukraine, a pro-western democracy defending itself against autocracy. In the 2024 Lipset Lecture, @SPlokhy: "Democracy is a key value that Ukrainians defend in this latest incarnation of David vs. Goliath." .

Russia has recently intensified its attacks on Ukraine—it's a pro-western democracy defending itself against autocracy. In the 2024 Lipset Lecture, @SPlokhy: "Democracy is a key value that Ukrainians defend in the latest incarnation of David vs. Goliath.".

Happening now: Our China Salon on PRC Digital Repression -- tune in to the livestream!.

Using Chinese-developed AI tools like DeepSeek to answer questions? You may not be getting the truth and may even be exposing yourself to propaganda…. Learn how the PRC is trying to outcompete the US on AI—and use it for repression. Livestream 7/17—11AM:

RT @NEDemocracy: Explore how the PRC is weaponizing AI to censor, surveil, and troll in our upcoming China Salon event on emergent digital….

What do PRC-led advances in large language AI models mean?.More:.🚫 Censorship.😡 Trolling.👁 Surveillance. Join @NEDemocracy on Thursday for our China Salon on the future of PRC AI advances and how they threaten free speech around the world. 7/17, 11 AM:

📖 Read more about how NED and its partners resist CCP’s global censorship threat here:

10/10 Civic groups backed by @NEDemocracy play a crucial role, raising awareness, protecting local narratives, and resisting Beijing’s global censorship and surveillance.

9/10 @ThinkDemocracy’s recent report by Valentin Weber highlights this global threat. Without intervention, future technologies could empower authoritarianism worldwide.

8/10 Beijing’s growing digital authoritarianism—advanced AI, quantum computing, surveillance tech—is not just domestic. It exports these tools globally, threatening free speech everywhere.

7/10 Sarah Cook’s 2021 @ThinkDemocracy report reveals how Beijing’s content-sharing agreements drown out independent reporting, pushing CCP narratives globally.

6/10 China aggressively shapes international perceptions through media partnerships and paid propaganda supplements in foreign outlets, from @DMRegister to @WashingtonPost.

5/10 “The CCP’s censorship is paired with authoritarian determination to monopolize ideas, suppress alternatives, and exploit institutions globally.” - Christopher Walker (@Walker_CT) before Congress.

4/10 To counter this, @NEDemocracy supports activists who archive censored content, preserving brave criticism from Chinese netizens otherwise erased by Beijing.

3/10 Expert Anne-Marie Brady noted for @ThinkDemocracy: Propaganda is the CCP’s lifeblood, inseparable from censorship. Critical topics—like Tibet or the Uyghurs—are strictly forbidden.

2/10 Beijing’s censorship goes beyond borders. Through “sharp power,” China manipulates global narratives, coerces individuals and governments, and silences dissent worldwide.

1/10 China ranks among the worst suppressors of free speech globally, scoring just 9/100 on Freedom House's 2024 Freedom on the Net report. Censorship is systematic, leveraging AI, legal threats, and human monitoring.

🧵The CCP’s global censorship campaign threatens free expression worldwide. Here’s how it works—and how activists supported by @NEDemocracy are fighting back.

The CCP is using new technologies to manipulate, censor & monitor its citizens—and foreign nationals—on an unprecedented scale. Join us to learn more at our China Salon on emergent digital repression with @rockngo of @CDT & David Lin of @scsp_ai. 7/17—11AM.

RT @NEDemocracy: Explore how the PRC is weaponizing AI to censor, surveil, and troll in our upcoming China Salon event on emergent digital….