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Disinformation and Regime Survival

open access: yesPolitical Research Quarterly
Disinformation has transformed into a global issue and while it is seen as a growing concern to democracy today, autocrats have long used it as a part of their propaganda repertoire. Yet, no study has tested the effect of disinformation on regime stability and breakdown beyond country-specific studies. Drawing on novel measures from the Digital Society
Yuko Sato, Felix Wiebrecht
openaire   +3 more sources

Competing Visions of Democracy in EU Disinformation Governance: Framing the Digital Services Act in the European Parliament

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Disinformation has become a contentious issue within the European Union (EU) and in transatlantic relations, raising fundamental questions about how democratic societies should regulate online content. This article investigates how competing democratic visions shape European Parliamentary debates on the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Linus Wahlberg, Sara Wissén
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of the European Union in Protecting Democracy through Legislation: The Case of Disinformation

open access: yesEuropean Papers
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2026 11(1), 81-111 | Article | (Table of Contents) 1. Introduction. – 2. The challenges posed by disinformation: a threat to EU values. – 3.
Martina Coli
doaj   +1 more source

What Is the Structure of Political Contestation on Digital Policy in Europe? Evidence From the DSA/DMA Package

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, the European Union (EU) expanded its digital regulatory competences. However, it is not clear which political trade‐offs occur in decision‐making on digital policy issues. This study examines how European parliamentarians and their party groups position themselves on these issues and which conflict lines emerge. Analysing roll
Adam Geoffrey Tyler, Ben Crum
wiley   +1 more source

‘Inside’ the AI Act Negotiations: Three Transversal Narratives in the Struggle for Social Positioning and Identity‐Making

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article adopts a political ethnographic approach to follow narrative practices enacted by diplomats and bureaucrats during the trilogue negotiations of the European Union's (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act where inter‐institutional dynamics were at stake.
Matilde Bro
wiley   +1 more source

Using AI to Tackle Disinformation: Methods and Tools from the vera.ai Project

open access: yes
465487As generative AI becomes increasingly fluent and accessible, its misuse for creating convincing and cost-effective disinformation campaigns has also been growing.
Spangenberg, Jochen   +8 more
core   +1 more source

The EU's Digital Services Act: Not Walking the Talk

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Is the European Union's (EU's) Digital Services Act (DSA) a bold reform of platform governance that needs to be scaled back? The EU's reputation for prioritising citizens' rights over companies' and market freedoms seems to suggest so. Recent criticism of EU digital policy from the United States is further fuelling this perception. However, an
Gerda Falkner
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge Work as a Condition of Accumulation in the Pesticide Industry: Syngenta's Defence of Paraquat

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
wiley   +1 more source

Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
wiley   +1 more source

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