👀 this new meta-analysis on edutainment by @bardiarahmani.bsky.social, Montano, @dylanwgroves.bsky.social, and Green doi.org/10.1017/bpp.... 377 ests in 77 exps: edutainment moves attitudes, norms, beliefs 📊 Effects persist ⏳ Many reasonable theories about effect heterogeneity are not supported 😇

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Journal of Democracy | How Autocrats Use Proxies to Control the Media | Bardia Rahmani | Issue Date April 2025 | Volume 36 | Issue 2 | Page Numbers 92–105 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how...

Who needs overt censorship when you can outsource control? Bardia Rahmani reveals how today’s autocrats manipulate the media using indirect methods—through powerful proxies that shape narratives for them. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

❓ Does access to independent news sources affect people’s interest in & knowledge about politics? Donald P. Green, Dylan W. Groves, Constantine Manda, Beatrice Montano & Bardia Rahmani partnered with a local Tanzanian radio station to answer this question. ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/how-does-loc...