Steve Feldstein
@stevenfeldstein.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment
Tech, geopolitics, democracy
Forthcoming book—Bytes & Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech & New Shape of Modern War
https://bit.ly/BytesandBullets
Author of Rise of Digital Repression
http://bit.ly/45186if
Tech, geopolitics, democracy
Forthcoming book—Bytes & Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech & New Shape of Modern War
https://bit.ly/BytesandBullets
Author of Rise of Digital Repression
http://bit.ly/45186if
“His abusive and excessive use of the GV Jet for his personal adventures and the assignment of SWAT-qualified special agents to guard his girlfriend are indicative of his lack of leadership experience, judgment and humility”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
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Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend
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November 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“His abusive and excessive use of the GV Jet for his personal adventures and the assignment of SWAT-qualified special agents to guard his girlfriend are indicative of his lack of leadership experience, judgment and humility”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Surprising?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
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A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme
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November 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Surprising?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
New piece out in @foreignpolicy.com about the new era of drone warfare and its consequences in Sudan:
👉Drones are making war deadlier
👉Regional powers using drone exports as geopolitical chips for leverage
👉Sudan's war illustrates the devastating consequences
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/g...
👉Drones are making war deadlier
👉Regional powers using drone exports as geopolitical chips for leverage
👉Sudan's war illustrates the devastating consequences
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/g...
‘Good Enough’ Drones Have Become Geopolitical Chips
In Sudan and elsewhere, regional powers have used the weapons for leverage.
foreignpolicy.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
New piece out in @foreignpolicy.com about the new era of drone warfare and its consequences in Sudan:
👉Drones are making war deadlier
👉Regional powers using drone exports as geopolitical chips for leverage
👉Sudan's war illustrates the devastating consequences
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/g...
👉Drones are making war deadlier
👉Regional powers using drone exports as geopolitical chips for leverage
👉Sudan's war illustrates the devastating consequences
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/g...
Posted new data about global digital repression trends from 2024.
Here's what the breakdown looks like worldwide.
👉Red = lots of surveillance, censorship, disinfo.
👉Blue = much lower levels.
No surprise - authoritarian countries digitally repress by huge margins vs democracies. Take a look! 🔽 🔽
Here's what the breakdown looks like worldwide.
👉Red = lots of surveillance, censorship, disinfo.
👉Blue = much lower levels.
No surprise - authoritarian countries digitally repress by huge margins vs democracies. Take a look! 🔽 🔽
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Posted new data about global digital repression trends from 2024.
Here's what the breakdown looks like worldwide.
👉Red = lots of surveillance, censorship, disinfo.
👉Blue = much lower levels.
No surprise - authoritarian countries digitally repress by huge margins vs democracies. Take a look! 🔽 🔽
Here's what the breakdown looks like worldwide.
👉Red = lots of surveillance, censorship, disinfo.
👉Blue = much lower levels.
No surprise - authoritarian countries digitally repress by huge margins vs democracies. Take a look! 🔽 🔽
Can’t shunt aside these concerns www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Age Is the Issue That Democrats Can’t Shut Down
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November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Can’t shunt aside these concerns www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Fed conduct is unconscionable
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
An Altercation With ICE Prompts a Police Chief to Push Back
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November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Fed conduct is unconscionable
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Here we go again www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Republicans Reprise Unfounded Claims of Widespread Election Interference
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November 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here we go again www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
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🛰️Starlink now dominates global satellite internet. But as the company expands across the Global South, can countries trust one company with their connectivity?
@stevenfeldstein.bsky.social tells @npr.org it’s a question of sovereignty and privacy🔊
@stevenfeldstein.bsky.social tells @npr.org it’s a question of sovereignty and privacy🔊
Can the Global South trust Starlink?
Elon Musk's satellite network Starlink is rapidly expanding across the Global South amid a lack of industry regulation. Steven Feldstein, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peac...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🛰️Starlink now dominates global satellite internet. But as the company expands across the Global South, can countries trust one company with their connectivity?
@stevenfeldstein.bsky.social tells @npr.org it’s a question of sovereignty and privacy🔊
@stevenfeldstein.bsky.social tells @npr.org it’s a question of sovereignty and privacy🔊
No President owns the White House. Not Trump nor anyone else. It's the People's House and the public should decide whether to demolish the East Wing for a ballroom fantasy or to preserve its historical legacy.
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White House expands East Wing demolition as critics decry Trump overreach
More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,
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October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
No President owns the White House. Not Trump nor anyone else. It's the People's House and the public should decide whether to demolish the East Wing for a ballroom fantasy or to preserve its historical legacy.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.
How shameful
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
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Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence
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October 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
How shameful
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Article ALERT:
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Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand – Political Communication
How do domestic online influence operations vary across countries, and why?🧵
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Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand – Political Communication
How do domestic online influence operations vary across countries, and why?🧵
Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand
Online influence operations (IO) are typically studied as isolated cases, often independent of their political context. In this study, based on 78 in-depth interviews with industry insiders, we exp...
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Article ALERT:
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand – Political Communication
How do domestic online influence operations vary across countries, and why?🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand – Political Communication
How do domestic online influence operations vary across countries, and why?🧵
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Over the past few years, Beijing has been mirroring the U.S. economic-security toolkit. China is developing its own architecture to manage risk, preserve chokepoints, and respond in kind. It's also learning from the United States.
October 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Over the past few years, Beijing has been mirroring the U.S. economic-security toolkit. China is developing its own architecture to manage risk, preserve chokepoints, and respond in kind. It's also learning from the United States.
Trump’s normalization of military troops patrolling the streets of America’s cities against the wishes of elected politicians and their citizens is a shocking abuse of constitutional norms and a staggering departure from precedent.
October 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Trump’s normalization of military troops patrolling the streets of America’s cities against the wishes of elected politicians and their citizens is a shocking abuse of constitutional norms and a staggering departure from precedent.
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President Trump’s TikTok deal puts the company's U.S. operations under U.S. control. But it doesn’t do much to address the economic or security concerns that motivated the deal in the first place, says @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social.
More in @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/29/t...
More in @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/29/t...
The TikTok Deal Is America’s White Flag in the Tech War With China
Beijing will still retain considerable influence over the U.S. version of the app.
foreignpolicy.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
President Trump’s TikTok deal puts the company's U.S. operations under U.S. control. But it doesn’t do much to address the economic or security concerns that motivated the deal in the first place, says @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social.
More in @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/29/t...
More in @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/29/t...
Is Trump abandoning America's tech war with China?
What signals can we glean from the TikTok deal?
My thoughts in the @foreignpolicy.com piece below 👇 👇
bit.ly/3KownII @carnegieendowment.org
What signals can we glean from the TikTok deal?
My thoughts in the @foreignpolicy.com piece below 👇 👇
bit.ly/3KownII @carnegieendowment.org
The TikTok Deal Is America’s White Flag in the Tech War With China
Beijing will still retain considerable influence over the U.S. version of the app.
foreignpolicy.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Is Trump abandoning America's tech war with China?
What signals can we glean from the TikTok deal?
My thoughts in the @foreignpolicy.com piece below 👇 👇
bit.ly/3KownII @carnegieendowment.org
What signals can we glean from the TikTok deal?
My thoughts in the @foreignpolicy.com piece below 👇 👇
bit.ly/3KownII @carnegieendowment.org
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As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:
September 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:
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A good time to remember that a whole bunch of us are getting together to speak out against this authoritarianism -- I used to say creeping, but it's really now just a full gallop -- on October 18. Join us
www.nokings.org
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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September 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A good time to remember that a whole bunch of us are getting together to speak out against this authoritarianism -- I used to say creeping, but it's really now just a full gallop -- on October 18. Join us
www.nokings.org
www.nokings.org
When John Yoo questions Trump’s dividing line between war and crime you know the country is in a heap of trouble
September 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
When John Yoo questions Trump’s dividing line between war and crime you know the country is in a heap of trouble
‘We Are in a Zero State’: Scenes From the Ashes of Nepal’s Capital www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...
‘We Are in a Zero State’: Scenes From the Ashes of Nepal’s Capital
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September 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
‘We Are in a Zero State’: Scenes From the Ashes of Nepal’s Capital www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...
Obama is right. The stifling of free speech is shocking and dangerous
After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Obama is right. The stifling of free speech is shocking and dangerous
After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...