Rising Digital Repression

Steven Feldstein

Steven Feldstein ’04 won the University of Louisville’s annual Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. The $100,000 prize honors the work in his 2021 book on how digital technology fuels political repression. A Carnegie Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program senior fellow, Feldstein showed how governments use internet shutdowns, facial recognition, and other tools to intimidate critics and spread propaganda.