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The Just Security Podcast: The Spread of Political Propaganda on Encrypted Messaging Apps
Messaging platforms such as have become highly influential tools for manipulating and misleading voters around the world.

Political Propaganda Runs Wild on Messaging Apps – Platform Owners Can Help Counter It
Messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Viber have become highly influential tools for manipulating and misleading voters.

Thailand’s Chance to Send the Right Signal
Will the General Assembly elect Thailand to a seat on the Human Rights Council despite the country's cascading decline in human rights protections and democratic freedoms?

The New Intelligence Community Directive on Prepublication Review: Important Reforms and Critical Omissions
The ODNI's prepublication review directive improves several important aspects of the system, but fails to make certain critical changes.

History Has Already Discredited the TikTok Ban
The TikTok ban is a reincarnation of past reactionary efforts to limit Americans from accessing media from abroad.

Telegram’s Security Sham
Its track record and transparency practices, as well as the testimony of researchers, make it plain its claims of security are not to be trusted.

The Growing Threat of State Domestic Terrorism Laws to the First Amendment
Since political violence is already criminalized under other state and federal laws, state domestic terrorism laws are arguably unnecessary. These laws create serious, and often…

The ODNI’s New and Disappointing Prepublication Review Process
Intelligence Community Directive 711 contains modest improvements, but is a missed opportunity provide uniform standards across agencies.

Durov, Musk, and Zuckerberg: Tech Oligarchs Cry Censorship and What It All Means
"It is important for the heads of social media companies to demand fair and legitimate boundaries are set. The current strategy by some of them seems more like the tale of the…

Collecting Just Security’s Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Term
A collection of legal and policy analysis of key cases from the Supreme Court's tumultuous term.

Dept of Justice Promises to Declassify Standard Operating Procedure for Coordinating with Social Media Platforms
Department of Justice set to release declassified Standard Operating Procedure for coordinating with social media platforms on foreign malign influence and First Amendment.

Azerbaijan’s Aliyev Extends Arbitrary Detentions Even as He Prepares to Host Global Climate Conference COP29
Gubad Ibadoghlu's case represents a trend of falsely imprisoning human rights defenders that casts a shadow on a premier annual gathering.