The International Press Institute (IPI), together with 63 undersigned press freedom and freedom of expression groups, media outlets and civil society organizations, condemns the official revocation of ...

Nineteen international civil society organisations demand due process at the review of journalist Jose Rubén Zamora’s detention due on Friday 18 October 2024. A Guatemala City court will consider the ...

Proposals released by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Security and Industry on facial-recognition technology and foreign-government end users could help prevent tech abuses.

Censorship, content manipulation, and rising violence against users further eroded internet freedom over the past year. But a ...

Overall gains related to expanding access and online activism were offset by widespread arrests of users and the prevalence of progovernment content manipulation.

Russia remained the worst-performing country in the region as the Kremlin continued to expand and intensify its censorship regime.

The United Kingdom, Estonia, and Serbia all suffered deterioration, though Europe remained the world’s top-performing region.

To track the different ways in which governments seek to dominate the digital sphere, Freedom House monitors their application of nine Key Internet Controls. Select from the drop-down menu in the map ...

Freedom in the World assigns a freedom score and status to 210 countries and territories. Click on the countries to learn more. Freedom on the Net measures internet freedom in 72 countries. Click on ...

Scores are based on a scale of 0 (least free) to 100 (most free). See the research methodology and report acknowledgements. The full Freedom on the Net 2024 narrative report for United Kingdom will be ...