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Recent trends in digitalized public diplomacy demonstrate that digital tools are increasingly used to undermine connectedness and to strengthen separateness.

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In the post-truth era, public diplomacy counters online falsehoods and promotes compelling digital narratives for one's own truth.

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CPD Research Fellow Ilan Manor indicates how AIs, without proper regulation, can pose a series of challenges to public diplomacy.

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CPD Research Fellow Ilan Manor considers forward-looking perspectives on virtual technologies and PD. 

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A recent scholarly debate at ICA 2021 covered various media interpretations of social protests and implications for PD.

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Should the practice of PD change to contend with the emergence of contemporary uncertainty? Ilan Manor and Paweł Surowiec explore.

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