Democracy is an information system. That’s the starting place of our new paper: “Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy.” In it, we look at democracy through the lens of information security, trying to understand the current waves of Internet disinformation attacks. Specifically, we wanted to explain why the same disinformation campaigns that act as a stabilizing influence […]
How to Build an Autocracy
A Long Read – Vital for understanding how Institutions are the Value keystones of a democracy. The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism. Everything imagined above—and everything described below—is possible only if many people other than Donald […]
