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Digital Technologies as a Means of Repression and Social Control

New and emerging technologies have expanded states’ toolkit for repression and social control. The EU must decide whether tackling digital repression is a core geopolitical interest at the highest political level.

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By Dorota Glowacka and Richard Youngs
Published on May 18, 2021
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Dorota Glowacka

Richard Youngs

Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program

Richard Youngs is a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, based at Carnegie Europe. He works on EU foreign policy and on issues of international democracy.

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Dorota Glowacka
Richard Youngs
Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Richard Youngs
Foreign PolicyTechnologyDemocracyEuropeWestern Europe

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