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In the wake of the digital surge caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens are spending a record proportion of their day on their digital devices, whilst the level of public dissatisfaction with democracy is at its highest since the mid-1990s. It seems that in this twenty-first century, the demos have never been more online, and democracy has never felt more at risk.
Democracy@Risk is a research project led by Professor Emma Barrett and Professor Rachel Gibson at the University of Manchester. Drawing on existing research and scholarship, the report sheds further light on
digital political micro-targeting and