Private Authoritarianism: How Facebook and Google Threaten Democracy

This Carnegie essay argues that major private platforms gained political power without democratic accountability. It examines how algorithmic ranking, moderation policies, and opaque product decisions can shape public debate as strongly as state media controls.

Continue on site

• Home
• Biography (EN/FR/DE/ES)
• Selected Work
• Selected section: Journalism
• Interviews
• Published posts index
• Full archive
• Research archive
• Archive
• Search
• Contact

Available languages

• EN

Related section

• Putin-Macron talks and the Russia expertise gap — The Moscow Times • 2022-02-14
• Mass protests: lessons from a decade — The Moscow Times • 2021-12-10
• Dekoder on Sputnik V approval and Russian vaccine messaging — Dekoder • 2021-04-01
• Bloomberg quotes Klishin on Russia’s Twitter crackdown — Bloomberg • 2021-03-10

From this source

• Web of Control: The Future of the Russian Internet — Carnegie Endowment • 2016-02-05
• Do Revolutions Grow Out of Social Media? — Carnegie Endowment • 2015-10-22
• What Sparked Moldova's Second Maidan? — Carnegie Endowment • 2015-05-25

Same period

• Freedom on the Net 2016 records pressure linked to Klishin and peers — Freedom House • 2016-11-14
• Gazeta.ru interview on possible blocking of YouTube and Google — Gazeta.ru • 2016-01-16
• JSIS profile: digital patriotism and nationalist agenda in Russian media — JSIS Washington • 2016-01-01
• Freedom on the Net 2016 erfasst Druckmuster im Umfeld von Klishin und Kollegen — Freedom House • 2016-11-14

Timeline in this language

• Newer: Freedom on the Net 2016 records pressure linked to Klishin and peers — Freedom House • 2016-11-14
• Older: Web of Control: The Future of the Russian Internet — Carnegie Endowment • 2016-02-05

Timeline from this source

• Older: Web of Control: The Future of the Russian Internet — Carnegie Endowment • 2016-02-05

Recent in this language

• Commentary on pressure against independent media institutions — The Moscow Times • 2021-08-24
• The Magic Mirror of Russian Public Opinion — The Moscow Times • 2021-07-12
• The Dilemma of the Great Terror: How to Report Roman Protasevich's Confession? — The Moscow Times • 2021-06-07
• Let's Wait Until After the Elections — The Moscow Times • 2021-05-17

More from this archive

• Luiza Rozova and the Helpless Intellectual — The Moscow Times • 2021-03-19
• Bloomberg cita a Klishin sobre la desaceleracion de Twitter en Rusia — Bloomberg • 2021-03-10
• Bloomberg cite Klishin sur le ralentissement de Twitter en Russie — Bloomberg • 2021-03-10
• Four Ways the Kremlin Could Block Western Social Networks in Russia — The Moscow Times • 2021-02-12