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Episode 53: Are Online Civil Liberties Threatened? With Jacob Mchangama
Social media and other platforms are under growing pressure to moderate and take down content – and big platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are increasingly accused of censoring political...
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How to make trade policy cool (again) on social media?
Lucian Cernat*, Chief Trade Economist, European Commission A recent LSE blog points out that economists, unlike other social scientists, are bad communicators. That's probably true. Although,...
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Fake News and How to Use Twitter in a Meaningful Way for Policy Debates: Lessons from the European Commission’s “Digital Tax” Campaign
Are the EU’s institutions superior to national administrations in formulating policies on the basis of data, facts and empirical evidence? Or are they equally prone to ideological impulses and...
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The Spiral of Silence – How Anti-TTIP Groups Dominate German Online Media and Set the Tone for TTIP Opinion
In Germany, a few anti-TTIP groups are waging a resolute battle against TTIP in online media. Compared to both German industry associations and labour unions, which are the traditional bodies...