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Is internet freedom a tool for democracy or authoritarianism?

  • Written by Elizabeth Stoycheff, Assistant Professor of Political Communication, Wayne State University

The irony of internet freedom was on full display shortly after midnight July 16 in Turkey when President Erdogan used FaceTime and independent TV news to call for public resistance against the military coup that aimed to depose him.

In response, thousands of citizens took to the streets and aided the government in beating back the coup. The...

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