Digital Authoritarianism and the Counter Disinformation Industry | Andrew Lowenthal

Andrew Lowenthal is the co-founder and former executive director of EngageMedia, an Asia-Pacific digital rights, open and secure technology, and documentary film non-profit. He is a former fellow of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and MIT's Open Documentary Lab.

Whilst director, EngageMedia produced the Pandemic of Control - a series on Covid-19 and digital authoritarianism. More recently Andrew has written about the 'anti-disinformation' industry as tool for information suppression. He is in the process of developing new initiatives on digital authoritarianism including writing at networkaffects.substack.com.

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