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Censorship in Large Societies

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  • Heo, Kun
  • Zerbini, Antoine

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An authoritarian regime faces a heterogeneous citizenry that consumes information from a regime- controlled and an opposition outlet that is known to be, if anything, biased against the regime. We characterize the optimal reporting strategy for the regime-controlled outlet and the existence of censorship incentives for the regime, assuming that censorship is cost-less. Fixing a median citizen, whether censorship is optimal depends on where the mass of citizens lie on either side of the median citizen. In polarized societies, a non-monotonic relationship emerges between censorship incentives and the opposition outlet’s reporting slant against the regime.

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  • Heo, Kun & Zerbini, Antoine, 2024. "Censorship in Large Societies," SocArXiv cjth9_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:cjth9_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/cjth9_v1
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