Sangeeta Mahapatra
sangeetamahapatra.bsky.social
Sangeeta Mahapatra
@sangeetamahapatra.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, working on AI governance, digital politics, digital authoritarianism, and counter-disinformation.
We present to you our Anti-Fake News Lawfare Tracker,a data-driven tool enriched with multi-stakeholder insights, which we hope will be of use to the research community and civil society in countering #disinformation and #legalrepression. Do try it and share with us your feedback.
How are anti- #FakeNews laws utilised to suppress civil liberties? @sangeetamahapatra.bsky.social, @janjiras.bsky.social & Andreas Ufen collected and analysed data from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. 📊

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January 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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The #GIGA is now on Bluesky! 🙌

We're here to share insights into our social sciences research of political, social, and economic developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East as well as our analyses of today’s pressing global issues.

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November 28, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Dive into one of these new Twitter alternatives leading the way in a more free social web: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
What’s the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads?
The ongoing Twitter exodus sparked life into a new way of doing social media. Instead of a handful of platforms trying to control your life online, people are reclaiming control by building more open ...
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November 11, 2024 at 10:40 PM
1st publication on anti-fake news lawfare on the Weaponisation of Fake News Laws again Civil Society in South and Southeast Asia. Our preliminary report is based on our extensive desk and field research in the region. Your comments are most welcome.

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Repression by Legal Means: Governments’ Anti-Fake News Lawfare
Anti-fake news lawfare is deepening government control over civil society, undermining information integrity and civil society’s democratic rights. Patterns to this legal repression and related pushba...
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April 5, 2024 at 8:39 AM
We present the preliminary findings of our research on the use of anti-fake news/disinformation laws against civil society actors in South and Southeast Asia at the GIGA Talk in Berlin. The video link is given below. I will be sharing our first report soon. I welcome your comments.
Weaponising Fake News Laws
Under the banner of countering disinformation, autocratising governments in Asia have recently stifled civil society by either exploiting existing information laws or passing new ones. This contribut...
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January 20, 2024 at 10:45 PM