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Last week, Tunisians had an opportunity to vote in the first presidential election since incumbent Kaïs Saïed’s antidemocratic power grab in 2021. To engineer Saïed’s reelection, they tightened the screws on what journalists could report and what people could access online. Meanwhile, Georgia is slogging toward next week’s parliamentary elections through a morass of disinformation.
There are fundamental differences between the elections in Tunisia and Georgia, with the latter still much freer and fairer than the former. However, they both exemplify an alarming trend documented in Freedom on the Net 2024: The Struggle for Trust Online, released today by Freedom House. The report, produced in collaboration with a global network of civil society experts, shines a light on how censorship and content manipulation have been used to distort the information space during crucial votes. This online interference contributed to a 14th consecutive year of decline in global internet freedom.
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Explore Freedom on the Net 2024: The Struggle for Trust Online
Around the world, voters have been forced to make major decisions about their future while navigating a censored, distorted, and unreliable information space. Explore Freedom on the Net 2024: The Struggle for Trust Online.
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Countries in Detail
Online interference contributed to a 14th consecutive year of decline in global internet freedom. Visit our Countries in Detail page to view all of this year's scores and read reports from each of the 72 countries we cover.
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How Do Governments Control The Digital Sphere?
To track the different ways in which governments seek to dominate the digital sphere, Freedom House monitors their application of nine Key Internet Controls. The resulting data reveal trends in the expansion and diversification of these constraints on internet freedom. Explore this year's data.
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Explore the Freedom on the Net 2024 Map
Learn more about the global landscape of internet freedom. Explore our interactive map with the findings of this year's Freedom on the Net report.
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