Press freedom, State control, and Disinformation in Democracies under strain and Authoritarian regimes: Examining how legal, financial, and digital tools are used to constrain journalism in states that formally guarantee free speech, alongside the role of state-sponsored propaganda with a special focus on specific issues such as foreign information operations like the Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, and AI-generated disinformation and Indian censorship

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