In “When Do Private Actors Engage in Censorship? Evidence From a Correspondence Experiment with Russian Private Media Firms,” Quintin Beazer, Ph.D., Holger Kern, Ph.D., and co-authors investigate the censorship behavior of private media firms.
The article, published in the British Journal of Political Science, was co-authored alongside Charles Crabtree, Ph.D., of Dartmouth College, and Christopher J. Farris, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan.
Using a correspondence experiment with Russian private media firms, the authors find that Russian private media firms censor advertisements with calls for political collective action or anti-regime messages. Furthermore, they find that these media firms also censor advertisements containing calls for non-political collective action.