How can democracies counteract misinformation from autocracies? We analyze the EU's unprecedented ban on RT and Sputnik and find that it decreased the spread of pro-Russian propaganda on social media, but only shortly. Excited to see our work on VoxEU ! cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

The #EU ban on Russian state-led news outlets after the invasion of #Ukraine reduced the pro-Russian slant on social media, though the effects were short-lived. M Caesmann & J Goldzycher University of Zurich, M Grigoletto Universität Bern Wyss Academy for Nature, L Gschwent Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social ow.ly/NA8Z50SMXiC

The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics presents the SSES Young Economist Award 2025 to UBS Center Scholarship holder Marcel Caesmann (Universität Zürich) and his co-authors Janis Goldzycher (Universität Zürich), Matteo Grigoletto (Universität Bern) and Lorenz Gschwent (Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social) for their paper 'Censorship in