Collaborate Disseminate
Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, tilting the technology toward digital authoritarianism. As a result of these trends, global internet freedom declined for the ninth con… Continue reading Global internet freedom declines for the ninth consecutive year
Governments around the world are dramatically increasing their efforts to manipulate information on social media, threatening the notion of the Internet as a liberating technology, according to Freedom on the Net 2017, the latest edition of the annual country-by-country assessment of online freedom, released today by Freedom House. Manipulating elections Online manipulation and disinformation tactics played an important role in elections in at least 18 countries over the past year, including the United States, damaging … More → Continue reading Governments manipulate social media, threaten global Internet freedom