User:Topsnowlion

My primary specialization is in international relations, with special research focus on authoritarian regimes and the means they employ at home and abroad to censor information, rule by terror, control thought and speech beyond their borders, conduct influence operations abroad, spread disinformation, revise history, export terror, and use their propaganda machines to enforce a single narrative on any issue.

My interest is in keeping Wikipedia free of misinformation and disinformation that may be inserted through agents of authoritarian regimes. It is good that the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the Wikipedia portal, has set up a "disinformation team". In September 2021, Maggie Dennis, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Vice President of Community Resilience & Sustainability, announced that, “We have banned seven users and desysopped a further 12 as a result of long and deep investigations into activities around some members of the unrecognized group Wikimedians of Mainland China."