Digital Oblivion: How Autocrats Engineer Forgetting
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY 219 W. 40th St., New York, United StatesAnd why the digital public sphere makes it easier than ever. Authoritarian regimes have always tried to rewrite history. What's new is the speed, precision, and deniability with which they can now do it. This roundtable maps the modern toolkit of manufactured amnesia — censorship and network shutdowns, legal harassment, platform capture, and the strategic flooding of the information space…