An international research team involving Konstanz scientist David Garcia warns that the next generation of influence operations may not look like obvious "copy-paste bots," but like coordinated ...

“AI swarms” could fake public consensus and quietly distort democracy, researchers warn. Social Data Scientist David Garcia from the University of Konstanz gives an outlook on an unprecedented scale ...

Was an 18th-century king of Georgia, Erekle II, a “traitor”? That was the recent claim of Levan Berdzenishvili, one of Georgia’s more liberal commentators. Berdzenishvili was revisiting a pivotal ...

The health of democracy is contingent upon a healthy public discourse, factual information and knowledge being accessible, and citizens being able to make informed political choices. Digital ...

Satisfaction with democracy is largely split across the 19 countries surveyed: A median of 51% say they are satisfied with the way democracy is working in their country, while 48% are not.