Valdai Club

Northeast Asia is becoming a kind of laboratory for testing various models of digital sovereignty: from service dependence to industrial autonomy. Digital independence in the region is becoming more a product of hybrid connections and distributed control than the result of a closed technological cycle, writes Yuri Kolotaev. The author is a participant of the Valdai – New Generation project.

AI spam doesn’t directly distort facts. Rather, it fills information gaps, replacing reporting when factual evidence is scarce or difficult to obtain. As a result, millions of users receive the illusion of presence, a picture credible enough to elicit an emotional response, writes Yuri Kolotaev, PhD in political science, a senior lecturer in the Department of European Studies at St. Petersburg State University. The author is a participant in the Valdai – New Generation project.

Over the past few years, the trend towards conflict between online platforms and states has been most evident between Western and Russian information spaces, but global contradictions have also had broad consequences for digital service management, writes Yuri Kolotaev, Senior Lecturer at the Department of European Studies, Faculty of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University