Democracy & Media Politics

Media pluralism is experiencing a rapid downslide in Greece. A look at the events and political developments that have accumulated in the last months.

The German parliamentary election campaign played out on the internet as never before. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, this was certainly necessary, but it brought with it all the evils we have previously seen in US election campaigns: disinformation campaigns and hate speech were used to discredit candidates, paid political online advertising and foreign influence circumvented basic democratic values.