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Christopher Walker, vice president for studies and analysis at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), discusses sharp power as a concept.
Social media and the Internet were supposed to enable democracy to triumph around the world, but now despots are using tech as an instrument of oppression.
Undemocratic states are kicking their influence-peddling machines into high gear.