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Framing Democracy: Deciphering China's Anti-Democratic Propaganda using Word Embeddings

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 …

Vaccine Nationalism: How China's State Media Misinform about Western Vaccines and Highlight the Successes of Chinese Vaccines to Different Audiences

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 …