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The purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk makes the regulation of a key sector even more crucial for the future of democracies in the face of authoritarian regimes.
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Nicolas Baverez
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Lhe destiny of political freedom in the 21stand century remains very uncertain. Authoritarian regimes, which had taken advantage of the crisis of democracies from the crash of 2008 and the decline of the United States, find themselves overtaken by the perverse effects of absolute power. Russia combines military stagnation and violent recession. China combines the impasse of its zero Covid strategy, the exhaustion of its economic model and the hardening of its totalitarianism around the absolute power of Xi Jinping.
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