It is well understood that autocrats have used propaganda to portray the incumbent regime in a positive light, but do they use it to diminish the appeal of alternative systems of government? To address this question, I employ word embeddings to …
What motivates state-sponsored vaccine misinformation campaigns, given clear scientific evidence of vaccines' efficacy? We explore this issue through the lens of state-owned presses published in mainland China and in Hong Kong. We first collect an …