The New Censorship

Préface
A ground-breaking guide to how the media's self-censorship in the face of populist politics threatens democracy.

Auteur

Ayala Panievsky is a researcher, journalist and activist specialising in populism, news media under attack, and democratic backsliding at the University of Cambridge, devoted to advancing human rights and refugees' rights in Israel and Palestine.

She works with journalists around the world to improve the future of news and what we get to know about the world in times of a new and sophisticated threat to democracy. She is the recipient of many prestigious grants and awards, and her research has been covered in the BBC, Politico, ARD in Germany, ABC Australia and Al Jazeera.

She was born and raised in Israel and now lives in London.

Texte du rabat

By weaponising liberal norms against liberal democracy, the populist right has found a way to exercise a more effective and socially acceptable type of silencing and manipulation, boosted by propaganda operations disguised as news.