Digital technologies hold tremendous potential to enhance societal wellbeing, including the protection and promotion of democracy and human rights, notes Harvard’s Ziyaad Bhorat.
However, citizens, political leaders, and states are increasingly concerned about the way in which digital technologies can be used to curtail freedoms and oppress foreign and domestic population groups in liberal democratic and autocratic states alike, he adds in Decoding Digital Authoritarianis, a new white paper from the Berggruen Institute.
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Source: Decoding digital authoritarianism – Democracy Digest