Tag: democracy

Press freedom in an increasingly restraint world

January 18, 2020

Press freedom might be having one of its toughest times in recent years. Partly, because of the rise of authoritarian governments across the globe, but partly because of its own errors regarding self-regulation. The paradoxicality on this is that some politicians that rose to power with an ‘anti-political correctness’ speech precisely because they felt ‘censured’ … More Press freedom in an increasingly restraint world

Cambridge Analytica and the Public Sphere

January 17, 2020

Social media branding, voter targeting and military disinformation. These were some of the services offered by the Strategic Communication Laboratories Group (SLC Group). In its genesis, the company was known as SCL Defence. Their endeavours then had much more focus on military activities and propaganda. In their website, the SCL Group claimed to have influenced … More Cambridge Analytica and the Public Sphere

‘We should fight together”: a democracy dream for the Hongkongers of Ireland

January 17, 2020

It all started with a murder. In February 2018 a Hongkongese couple went on vacation to Taiwan, but only one of them returned home. A month later, Chan Tong-hai would confess to assassinating his girlfriend. However, he couldn’t be charged as the crime occurred in another jurisdiction. And he couldn’t be sent back because the … More ‘We should fight together”: a democracy dream for the Hongkongers of Ireland