Channel Leverage through Telegram

New Institutions Beat the Old Model in Belarus

6 May 2020

Independent Telegram channels have become the main source of direct information about what is happening in Belarus. The authorities should actively cooperate with the Telegram community on information issues related to Belarusian sovereignty.

 

Part Two

Wojciech Przybylski writes that the lack of information sovereignty is “like the absence of legislative or executive power, without which democracy cannot survive”. Let us consider this thesis within the Belarusian context (Part One).

An integral part of information sovereignty is the identity of citizens, which is formed under the influence of media and social networks in conditions of a guaranteed right to privacy and anonymity.

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