Caesmann, Marcel; Grigoletto, Matteo; Gschwent, Lorenz - 2026 - Revised version, June 2026
Democracies increasingly use censorship to counter foreign propaganda, yet evidence on its consequences remains scarce. We exploit the European Union's 2022 ban on Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik as a natural experiment, using a triple-difference design that compares users connected to the banned...