Launch of Anti-Fake News Lawfare Tracker

Governments and tech companies worldwide periodically clash over what content is acceptable to post online and who gets to decide. As states exert legal, economic, and political pressure on social media platforms and users to control online conversations, the platforms frequently seek to push back.

The GIGA Institute for Asian Studies investigates current developments in Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Australasia. Research topics include civil society–state relations, party politics, economic development, China and India in regional and global affairs, and the Indo-Pacific as a strategic space.

The Peace and Security Research Programme analyses how identities and ideologies, institutional arrangements, and international interventions affect peace and conflict dynamics in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and investigates international violence and security trends.

Anti-fake news lawfare is deepening government control over civil society, undermining information integrity and civil society’s democratic rights. Patterns to this legal repression and related pushback strategies in South and Southeast Asia are examined, as the forerunners of global developments.

This chapter examines multi-platform and multi-discourse political messaging during the 2019 Indian General Elections by India's two largest political parties. It demonstrates how multi-platform partisan messaging enables certain discursive and leadership styles for voter outreach and mobilization.

Governments and tech companies worldwide periodically clash over what content is acceptable to post online and who gets to decide. As states exert legal, economic, and political pressure on social media platforms and users to control online conversations, the platforms frequently seek to push back.

The GIGA Institute for Asian Studies investigates current developments in Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Australasia. Research topics include civil society–state relations, party politics, economic development, China and India in regional and global affairs, and the Indo-Pacific as a strategic space.

The Peace and Security Research Programme analyses how identities and ideologies, institutional arrangements, and international interventions affect peace and conflict dynamics in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and investigates international violence and security trends.