Once accepted into college, Chinese rural students perform equally as well, if not better, than their urban counterparts. Rural students also earn a 6.2 per cent wage premium compared to their urban counterparts in their first job after graduation. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Will the US crack down on TikTok?

“A ban could generate more problems than it would solve,” explains DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social’s Kenton Thibaut.

“What the US should consider instead is passing federal privacy laws and transparency standards that apply to all companies.”
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Fantastic day 1 of this Atlantic Council conference! Engaging afternoon panels featuring Joshua Eisenman / 马佳士 🇺🇦🎗️ Joseph Asunka bulelani jili Christopher Walker Johanna Kao Victoria Chonn-Ching Margaret Myers Pepe Zhang Sarah Cook Kenton Thibaut emeka umejei and more! atlanticcouncil.org/event/china-in…

Flagging this essential read - Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga's testimony to U.S.-China Commission on generative AI & PLA IO: 'Beijing has long sought targeted AND tailored IO; while social media has enabled targeted IO, generative AI [can/may] enable tailored IO.' tinyurl.com/yek722ny

Application deadline approaching soon! Apply for the Atlantic Council's non-partisan Congressional Cyber and Digital Policy Program today.

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On this week's episode of The Dynamist by Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀, Evan Swarztrauber speaks with Atlantic Council's Kenton Thibaut about discourse power's role in our ongoing strategic competition with China.

Listen and subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

🎙️China is increasingly focused on 'discourse power,' using the digital realm to shape narratives to help the CCP achieve its goals.

What does this mean in practice? How can the U.S. respond?

🎧Listen to our latest episode w/ Atlantic Council's @KentonThibaut

LIVE | Join ACGlobalChina for the virtual discussion on the outcomes and implications of Taiwan’s presidential election with Lev Nachman, Wen-Ti Sung, Kenton Thibaut, and Shelley Rigger 01-17-24 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Excited to read this!

Why is Taiwan so important?

Will there be war there?

Why should you even care?

My new book breaks down Taiwan politics and all its nuances in a simple, accessible way to answer all these questions & more! Just in time for the election!

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My latest for Foreign Affairs. In it, I discuss China's influence efforts in Taiwan's current & past elections. While China's efforts have evolved, the island remains adaptable & resilient. I cite
Doublethink Lab's work throughout the piece: foreignaffairs.com/taiwan/china-s…

Thank you to Big Think for having me to unpack the recent tumult at OpenAI.

My takeaway: “AI is such an important technology and so consequential for everyone...We can’t rely on a company or a board that is tiny to represent all of humanity.”

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Join for a critical discussion on how the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is affecting online discourse and how the fog of war permeates social media through disinformation and propaganda.

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Dr Samantha Hoffman Journal of Democracy EFF DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social Kenton Thibaut According to a new CIMA report, authoritarian states are increasing their use of misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information (MDM) laws to target civic actors. buff.ly/44SL5g4

In the midst of escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, the implementation of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) faces its first major road test. Check out this thread and my latest piece with @rosejackson3 at DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social dfrlab.org/2023/10/26/as-…

Forum @ NED’s Christopher Walker and Kevin Sheives sat down with #JohnFitzgerald , Niva Yau 邱芷恩, and Doublethink Lab’s TTCAT 🇺🇦 to discuss how #China experts and diaspora groups have unique roles to play in disseminating their knowledge of the CCP and China more broadly.buff.ly/48SoCCy

Want to use word embeddings to track significant changes in political sentiment over time? Check out Risa Kitagawa and my new text-as-data research note that was just accepted at Journal of Politics @[email protected]!

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I am honored to publish an article on Xinjiang camp-linked forced labor in the probably most prestigious China journal, 'The China Journal.'
It's an important update on my first work uncovering camp-linked forced labor from mid-2019, with new evidence: /1
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What China should have done four days into the war but didn't:
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absolutely poisonous account. regularly posting wrong and unverifiable things (“sources say”). inserting random editorialization and trying to juice its paid subscriber count. 500k followers with most people retweeting it uncritically.