Mikal Hem has a really interesting thought: Authoritarism works different ways in different countries. In some of these, they have to pretend they have the rule of people. 🚹

Hvis noen av dere er i Surabaya i Indonesia på lørdag, kan dere stikke innom biblioteket og høre samtale om boka mi.

🎙️ In our new podcast, recorded at the Budapest Forum, Mikal Hem discusses what modern autocrats seem to have learned from their predecessors, and reflects on what might drive voters toward leaders with autocratic tendencies. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y2snd9sb

Hvis du bare skal høre én podkast om diktatorer i dag, kan det like gjerne være denne.

"Egy diktátor, aki egy ideje már hatalmon van, végül maga is hinni fog a saját propagandájában." Mikal Hem, norvég újságíró

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Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

🧵 I spent much of last night digging through the #JFKfiles for ABC News. Here’s my take: Most of what the government released last night is not new -- in fact, much of what has attracted attention on social media has long been in the public domain, except for minor redactions,

Charlie Kirk As someone who actually knows Greenland, I will try to take this nonsense seriously and answer it one point at the time. 🧵 1/x

Dette er det nærmeste Trump kommer Nobels fredspris.

Yep. No such thing as a small government dictator.

This is not coincidence. Autism is driven by organic food sales.

I know. I know. Sorry. I had to.

RT if you are a Alpha Male 🔥💪🏻

Evading the Censors: Critical journalism in authoritarian states, paper by former journalist fellow Mikal Hem ow.ly/D5BTN