Semuhi Sinanoglu offers policy advice to German and international stakeholders on countering digital authoritarian propaganda, based on insights from experimental and computational research. Semuhi studies how dictators drive support for their regimes through propaganda, repression, and polarization, and which counter-mobilization and international assistance strategies can mitigate their effectiveness. Semuhi launched a new research-based policy initiative, called Corporate Civic Responsibility in Safeguarding Democracy (#DEMCOR), which aims to map global business initiatives to protect democracy and, through experiments, identify what motivates firms to take action. Semuhi is invested in creating sustainable democracy data infrastructures, including developing reproducible measures of democratic erosion.
Semuhi Sinanoglu offers policy advice to German and international stakeholders on countering digital authoritarian propaganda, based on insights from experimental and computational research. Semuhi studies how dictators drive support for their regimes through propaganda, repression, and polarization, and which counter-mobilization and international assistance strategies can mitigate their effectiveness. Semuhi launched a new research-based policy initiative, called Corporate Civic Responsibility in Safeguarding Democracy (#DEMCOR), which aims to map global business initiatives to protect democracy and, through experiments, identify what motivates firms to take action. Semuhi is invested in creating sustainable democracy data infrastructures, including developing reproducible measures of democratic erosion.