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Haraszti on the Rise of Populist Leaders in Washington Post

January 6, 2017
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CMDS fellow Miklos Haraszti’s piece on populist leaders and alarming global trends in the rise of illiberal regimes.

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Apply to Our Summer School on “Media Capture: The Relationship Between Power, Media Freedom and Advocacy”

January 4, 2017
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Arguably, the biggest challenge to media freedom and independent journalism today is the systemic political corruption in which private interests shape the decision-making process in state bodies and institutions. Increasingly, a model of captive, politically instrumentalized news media financed by owners, corporations, social and political groups, or governments, is becoming dominant in most parts of the world. This has severe consequences on independent media and journalism.

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Coyer Speaks at CEU's University-Wide Seminar on the Dark Side of Big Data

January 4, 2017
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The availability and analysis of big data opens up enormous opportunities for research, but is not without serious dangers, faculty concluded at "The Amazing Potential and the Dark Side of Big Data," a university-wide seminar organized as part of CEU's Intellectual Themes Initiative, which brings research, teaching and outreach projects under four interdisciplinary themes, one of which is Networks.

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Dragomir Quoted in Financial Times' Article on Macedonia's Flourishing Fake News Industry

December 19, 2016
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Marius Dragomir, Director of the Center has been quoted in the Financial Times' article on the booming fake news industry in Macedonia, where a town called Veles hosts more than a hundred US politics sites that produce hoax news. According to the Financial Times, "the hoax news creators, who decided to set up online after the success of local health websites, still make most of their money from Trump-related content.

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Malaysiakini Under Fire

December 16, 2016
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In his latest piece for the Media Power Monitor, CMDS Director Marius Dragomir writes about the current state of media in Malaysia. Dragomir writes that mainstream Malaysian media are practically captured by the government. Most of them, including newspapers such as the New Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia, have ownership links with the ruling coalition. Utusan Malaysia, in fact, is directly owned by United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the ruling party.

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