Indra de Lanerolle receives funding from Making All Voices Count for his research on mobile Internet use . He runs the Network Society Lab in the Journalism and Media programme at the University of ...

In barely 20 years, the Internet and other communications breakthroughs have changed the world immeasurably. The information age has transformed economies, expanded growth, and improved the quality of ...

Legislation that would make it official U.S. policy to promote a global Internet “free from government control” could restrict the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from using its authority and ...

The Russia of President Vladimir Putin has not cultivated a reputation as a bastion of freedom, but a Pew survey out Wednesday suggests younger Russians may be more liberty-loving than the stereotype ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Remember the Stop Online Privacy and Protect IP Acts, better known as SOPA/PIPA? It was a year ago that thousands of websites ...

What started as a senior project at Buhler High School has evolved into a tool that has changed the lives of many residents in rural Kansas. IdeaTek fights for internet freedom by bringing the fastest ...

Allie Funk, who leads the technology and democracy initiative at the nonprofit Freedom House, says many governments suppressed online speech and information while holding and/or preparing for ...

One ironic aspect of the current wave of Big Tech restrictions directed at President Trump and his supporters is that, in broad terms, the Trump administration has had an outstanding record in ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Jason Pielemeier is the policy director of the Global Network Initiative. The ...

In a relatively short period of time, the internet has become an influential arena for public debates about political and social issues. And around the world, many consider free expression in ...

Internet freedom around the world has fallen for the 12th year in a row, according to new research. The latest edition of Freedom House's Freedom on the Net report finds that human rights online ...

As democracies around the world struggle to hold back the rising tide of authoritarianism, a similar crisis is unfolding online. Three factors converged this year to make 2018 the eighth straight year ...