In the 72nd APOSS session, Masaaki Higashijima (Tohoku University) presented his paper with Susumu Annaka (Waseda University) and Gento Kato (Nazarbayev University) on how ordinary citizens respond to government-sponsored information in autocracies. James R. Hollyer (Minnesota), Sarah Wilson Sokhey (Colorado), Scott Radnitz (Washington), and Colleen Wood (Cornell) offered really helpful comments of all manner of issues.