Search Results - subject_exact:"Media freedom"

Kladakis, George; Skouralis, Alexandros - 2025

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Crisis? What Crisis? : bank stability, financial development and propaganda

Enikolopov, Ruben; Kirschenmann, Karolin; Schoors, Koen; … - 2024

How does government control over mass media affect banking system? Our theoretical model predicts that if the media are biased, depositors are less likely to run on their bank, but also less likely to deposit their money in the banking system in the first place. Empirically, we show that...

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Ruling by bullying : threats of regulation as an internet governance device

Álvarez Ugarte, Ramiro - 2026

Government by regulation structures how constitutional democracies normally operate. Legislatures and executive agencies enact formal rules that govern conduct, embodying the ideal of government by laws rather than by individuals. Yet regulators also govern through threats of regulation. When...

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Populism, constitutional constraints, and freedom of expression

Bjørnskov, Christian; Berggren, Niclas - 2026

Populists typically frame politics as a conflict between a corrupt elite and a virtuous people and are skeptical of institutional constraints, including those protecting freedom of expression, as they seek to control the public narrative. We ask to what extent de jure constitutional guarantees...

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Segment and rule : modern censorship in authoritarian regimes

Heo, Kun; Zerbini, Antoine - 2026 - Version February 2026

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Censorship in democracy

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...

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Censorship in democracy

Caesmann, Marcel; Grigoletto, Matteo; Gschwent, Lorenz - 2025 - Revised version, September 2025

Edition: Revised version, September 2025

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Censorship in democracy

Caesmann, Marcel; Goldzycher, Janis; Grigoletto, Matteo; … - 2024

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From .com to .gov: the internet's inevitable nationalist turn

Payande, Imad; Charkameh, Hadyeh - 2025

This essay examines Iran's most extensive internet disruption since 2022, imposed during the June 2025 conflict with Israel, when missile strikes quickly evolved into coordinated cyberattacks on banking, radar, and communications systems. Drawing from direct experience during the blackout, it...

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Social Media, KI & Co. - Neue Gefährdungslagen für die Meinungsvielfalt : Bericht der Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration im Medienbereich (KEK) über die Entwicklung der Konzentration und über Maßnahmen zur Sicherung der Meinungsvielfalt im privaten Rundfunk : [8.] Konzentrationsbericht der KEK nach §60 Abs. 6 MStV

2025 - Stand: Juni 2025

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Press freedom and stock price crash risk

Hui, Zhiyang; Dong, Yizhe; Li, Haoyu - 2025

This paper examines the impact of press freedom, an important institutional factor, on stock price crash risk. Using a large international sample of firms across 52 economies between 2002 and 2021, we find that firms in economies with higher degrees of press freedom are associated with lower...

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Institutional media freedom in the EU : implications for democratic governance and social innovation

Supekova, Sona Chovanova; Stehlíková, Beáta; Keklak, … - 2025

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Shadows of censorship : Indonesia's content moderation policy development

Nidhal, Muhammad; Aaron, Rasya Athalla; Alfarisi, Aldrich - 2025

Indonesia's content moderation framework, governed by MOCI Regulation No. 5/2020, is often criticized for its lack of transparency, inconsistent enforcement, and broad legal definitions that risk overreach and censorship if applied indiscriminately. While efforts have been made to enhance the...

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Conflict, information and regime-change

Bosco, Davide; Colombo, Luca; Femminis, Gianluca - 2025

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Between regulation, pressure and collaboration : the public-private entanglement in content moderation

Fasel, Mathieu; Weerts, Sophie - 2025

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Crisis? What Crisis? Bank stability, financial development and propaganda

Enikolopov, Ruben; Kirschenmann, Karolin; Schoors, Koen; … - 2024

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Blocking the information war? : testing the effectiveness of the EU's censorship of Russian state propaganda among the fringe communities of Western Europe

Santos Okholm, Christiern; Fard, Amir Ebrahimi; Thij, … - 2024

In response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union banned or geo-blocked Russian propaganda media fearing the effects of the Kremlin's information warfare on internal public opinion during the largest security crisis in modern history. We investigate the...

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Bank runs and media freedom : what you don't know won't hurt you?

Semenova, Maria; Sokolov, Vladimir; Benov, Alexander - 2024

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A dynamic model of censorship

Sun, Yiman - 2024

We study the interaction between an agent of uncertain type, whose project gives rise to both good and bad news, and an evaluator who must decide if and when to fire the agent. The agent can hide bad news from the evaluator at some cost, and will do so if this secures her a significant increase...

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A Dynamic Model of Censorship

Sun, Yiman - 2022

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Watchdogs or petdogs : the role of media freedom on banking system stability

Nguyen, My; Samarasinghe, Ama; Skully, Michael J. - 2024

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Monitoring media pluralism in the digital era : application of the Media Pluralism Monitor in the European Member States and in candidate countries in 2023 : Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom

2024

This report presents the results and the methodology of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2024, based on its implementation in 32 countries (27 EU Member States and five candidate countries) for the year 2023. The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a tool that is geared to assessing the risks to media...

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Towards implementation of warrant-based content self-moderation

Lin, Herbert - 2024

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The erosion of freedom of expression on social media platforms and the suppression of the voices of marginalised groups

Farah, Youseph - 2026

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The anatomy of censorship and propaganda : evidence from Russian wikipedias

Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina; Matter, Ulrich; Durante, Ruben; … - 2026

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TV Consumption Patterns and the Impact of Media Freedom on Political Trust and Satisfaction with the Government

Knoll, Bodo; Pitlik, Hans; Rode, Martin - 2023

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The Need for Measures to Safeguard Undistorted Competition and Freedom of Expression in Geographical Indications Law – Opinion on the EU Commission’s Proposals for Broader Protection

Kur, Annette; Calboli, Irene; Gangjee, Dev Saif; … - 2023

In spring 2022, the European Commission launched two proposals concerning the protection of Geographical Indications (GIs): COM(2022)134 of 31 March 2022 amending current Regulation (EU) no. 2012/1151 on agricultural products and foodstuff and COM(2022)174 of 13 April 2022 on craft and...

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Weaponizing privacy and copyright law for censorship

Radsch, Courtney C. - 2023

Freedom of the press is facing growing restrictions from technology policies that censor the media under the guise of protecting privacy. US and European copyright and privacy laws transcend borders and affect how news media can operate globally. Fundamental journalistic practices such as the...

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Weaponizing Privacy and Copyright Law for Censorship

Radsch, Courtney - 2023

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Government responses to online disinformation unpacked

Cipers, Samuel; Meyer, Trisha; Lefevere, Jonas - 2023

This article collects, categorises and analyses responses (n=239) to online disinformation from 103 countries, ten international and regional organisations across six continents (through 2021). We categorised each initiative into eleven non-mutually exclusive categories according to intent,...

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Civic Space Review of Romania

2023

The Civic Space Review of Romania provides an in-depth analysis of national legal frameworks, policies, institutions, and practices relevant to civic space protection. It reviews strengths and areas for improvement, and providing guidance on a wide range of issues. The Review assesses four key...

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Can social pressure stifle free speech?

Morales, Juan S.; Samahita, Margaret - 2023

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Can social pressure stifle free speech?

Morales, Juan S.; Samahita, Margaret - 2023

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Republicanism and moralised freedom

Moen, Lars J. K. - 2023

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The politics of internet freedom rankings

Lokot, Tetyana; Wijermars, Mariëlle - 2023

Internet freedom rankings are a comparative tool that serves as an evaluative shorthand in decision-making contexts internationally. Understanding their aims and how they define internet freedom, as well as the power relationships within the ranking ecosystem, can reveal a lot about their...

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Freedom of expression and social conflict

Bjørnskov, Christian; Mchangama, Jacob - 2023

The association between freedom of expression - freedom of speech and the freedom of the media - and social conflict is theoretically ambiguous and politically highly contested. On one side of the debate, people argue that freedom of speech and freedom of the media create social conflict by...

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The sin of words : censorship and self-censorship in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

Li, Peiyuan - 2023

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Revisiting the relationship between corruption and press freedom

Mahmood, Towhid Iqram; Pavlik, Jamie Bologna - 2025

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Revisiting the Relationship Between Corruption and Press Freedom

Mahmood, Towhid Iqram; Pavlik, Jamie Bologna - 2023

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Revisiting the Relationship between Corruption and Press Freedom

Pavlik, Jamie Bologna; Mahmood, Towhid Iqram - 2023

We use matching methods to explore the causal relationship between the control of corruption and press freedom from 1996-2016. We find strong evidence that corruption reform significantly increases press freedom over both the four-year and eight-year horizon. However, we find little evidence...

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Cancel culture : Heterodox self-censorship or the curious case of the dog-which-didn’t-bark

Norris, Pippa - 2023

There is widespread concern that academic freedom is threatened by growing demands for intellectual conformity and attempted censorship from intolerant zealots involving ‘woke wars’ and a ‘cancel culture’ pitting the socially liberal progressive left against the socially conservative...

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A Publisher’s Intellectual Property Right. Implications for Freedom of Expression, Authors and Open Content Policies

van Eechoud, Mireille - 2023

THE PROPOSED COPYRIGHT in the Digital Single Market Directive (COM(2016)593) of July 2016 would introduce a new intellectual property right for publishers of press publications, or ‘PIP’. Publishers would have the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit any reproduction (in whole or in...

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Is internet access bad news for media-capturing incumbents?

Martínez-Torres, Hans; Gámez Garza, Cesáreo - 2019

This paper's objective is to investigate the effects of internet access on voter behavior in governor elections at the state level in aconsolidating democracy. Using a fractional probit model for panel data, we analyze the electoral outcomes in 31 Mexican states and Mexico City during state/city...

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Censorship and mental models

Murtazashvili, Ilia; Zhou, Yang - 2025

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Does economic liberalization increase government accountability?

Rayamajhee, Veeshan; March, Raymond J. - 2025

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Censorship of U.S. movies in China

Pan, Xuhao Harry; Groseclose, Tim; Cowen, Tyler - 2025

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When is digital censorship permissible? : a conversation norms account

Kim, Tami - 2025

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Digital transformation's impact on media concentration and news diversity : a network analysis of cross-platform news usage in Germany

Knuth, Ingo; Petzold, Thomas; Richter, Florian - 2025

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Examining the relationship between economic growth and media in different economies : the role of press freedom, media corruption and diversity

Ketteni, Elena; Maniou, Theodora A. - 2025

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Adopting digital press : media transformation and advertising dynamics in Southeastern Europe

Papathanasopoulos, Athanasios; Stavrianea, Aikaterini - 2025

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The global investigation on the effect of press freedom on country-level idiosyncratic volatility

Xue, Wenjun; Zhang, Ning - 2025

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The political dimension of tourism : new insights into freedom of expression and tourism development

Uzar, Umut; Yılmaz, Mucahid Samet - 2025

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When Do South Koreans Support Government Restrictions on Media? The Roles of Partisanship and Democratic Support

Rich, Timothy S. - 2025

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Freedom of expression and stock price crash risk : evidence from a natural experiment

Chen, Zhihong; Li, Qingyuan; Li, Yongbo - 2025

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Press freedom as a risk factor : effects on volatility and uncertainty

Duarte, Diogo; Rouxelin, Florent; Saporito, Yuri F.; … - 2025

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A Free Press Without Democracy

Carroll, Erin - 2022

The American press is beleaguered and distracted by the economic crisis it faces. This is understandable. The threat is existential. Platforms are squeezing the press of profits, hedge funds are siphoning off what’s left, and news deserts are expanding. But, in fact, there is another crisis...

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