Dictators, disinformation, disputed outcomes and more: must-read books for a big election year
Rumman Chowdhury’s [US AI envoy] recommendation:
Marietje Schaake is international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and international policy fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and author of The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley (Princeton University Press; Sept 2024).
Between 2009 and 2019, she served as a Member of European Parliament for the Dutch liberal democratic party where she focused on trade, foreign affairs, and technology policies.
Marietje writes a monthly column for the Financial Times and serves on the UN’s AI Advisory Body. She is an (Advisory) Board Member with a number of non-profits including MERICS, ECFR, ORF and AccessNow. – Source
After an internship with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Schaake was granted the Lantos Fellowship of the United States House of Representatives, where she focused on international relations and human rights issues.
What’s Really Going On In the South China Sea Between the Philippines and China:
Stanford University has contracts with the U.S. government.
I’m not going through all of the “non-profits” that Marietje Schaake advises. The majority of Access Now’s funders are front organizations. I’m going to assume that the other non-profits are as well.
Access Now’s funding: Apple Inc, Jigsaw (Google), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Tides Foundation, Digital Democracy Initiative (CIVICUS), Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, Microsoft, Proton Mail
Roukaya Kasenally’s [Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA)] recommendation:
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa Harper (2022)
In 2012, Ressa co-founded a news site called Rappler, which used technologies such as open-source and crowd-sourcing software to create “uncompromising journalism”. Yet today, the same technologies are increasingly part of a dictator’s toolbox, used to identify, track and manipulate citizens’ data.
Nobel Peace Prize’s Maria Ressa: a US Citizen Funded by the US Government
US government asset, from PH, calling for censorship of US citizens
Color Revolution – Regime Change Keywords
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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