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From Iran to China: Using Social Data to Detect Authoritarian Decline

From Tehran to Beijing, subtle shifts in language reveal cracks in authoritarian control. A new paradigm to detect decline via natural language processing tools has allowed us to track the whispers of discontent.

Commentary by Benjamin Jensen — June 20, 2025

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