Digital authoritarianism

Providing a safe space for Myanmar’s embattled journalists and human rights defenders

Written by Mong Palatino

12 February 2025

From a soap opera to cyberattacks: The unexpected connection between North Macedonia and Venezuela

Written by Estefanía Salazar, Filip Stojanovski

7 February 2025

Can the media be trusted again? Journalist and human rights defender Aidan White reveals the path to redemption

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation

23 January 2025

Shutting down the net: The growing threat of Russian internet censorship

Written by Daria Dergacheva

22 January 2025

Stories about Digital authoritarianism

From Russia to the EU: The high stakes of Meta’s content moderation shift

The solution is to support legacy media rooted in fact-checking

Written by Daria Dergacheva

16 January 2025

Where is Carlos Correa? Unidentified men take Venezuelan activist away from the middle of Caracas

Prominent Venezuelan human rights activist went missing on January 7

Written by Estefanía Salazar

9 January 2025

Vietnam strengthens control of internet and civil society through new decrees

Tech companies are now required to verify users, while strict rules are imposed on associations

Written by Mong Palatino

7 January 2025

India's internet shutdown crisis: A growing threat to digital rights

India’s internet shutdowns are undermining digital rights, economic development, and the fundamental freedoms of its people.

Written by Kanav Narayan Sahgal

6 January 2025

Internet outages and blocks in Latin America in 2024

Latin America between power outages and internet blockages

Written by Jacobo Nájera Translated (en) by Dalia Tarek

3 January 2025

A year of elections and digital repression in South Asia: 2024 in focus

Several governments expanded their control over online spaces

Written by Rezwan

2 January 2025

Data Narratives Civic Media Observatory: Country Reports

For the past year, the Civic Media Observatory — through its Data Narratives project — conducted research in Brazil, El Salvador, India, Turkey, and Sudan

Written by Civic Media Observatory

31 December 2024

Artificial Intelligence Narratives: A Global Voices Report

By situating AI in the context of data, we analyzed their narrative relationship, shared incentives, and strategies necessary to protect the public interest

Written by Civic Media Observatory

23 December 2024

Eyes in the sky: Hong Kong police considering AI-enhanced drone patrols

Currently HK police's crime detection drones are operated by human

Written by Hong Kong Free Press

13 December 2024

The great Pakistan firewall and use of religion as a tool for digital authoritarianism

Amid VPN regulations, reports emerge of Bluesky also being blocked in Pakistan

Written by Ramna Saeed

22 November 2024

Reflections on youth-led movements against state repression in Bangladesh and Indonesia

"The internet shutdown was meant to stifle us, but it had the opposite effect"

Written by EngageMedia

21 November 2024

Hong Kong police told a US tech firm to take down diaspora media site on national security grounds

Flow HK was founded in early 2021 by a number of diaspora activists

Written by Hong Kong Free Press

9 October 2024

Alaa Abdel Fattah, a symbol of resistance, must be released on time

For many in Egypt and elsewhere in the region, Abdel Fattah has become a symbol of resistance against authoritarianism

Written by Walid El Houri

27 September 2024

Hong Kong Article 23: Three jailed over a seditious T-shirt, bus graffiti, social media posts in six months

The three were sentenced between 10 and 14 months in prison over political slogans

Written by Hong Kong Free Press

23 September 2024

Lessons from Indonesia's 2024 election: Social media, censorship, and youth vote

Young activists shared how the spread of disinformation and the use of AI influenced election results

Written by EngageMedia, Rezwan

17 September 2024

Hong Kong journalists are under systematic and organized attacks

Dozens of Hong Kong journalists threatened, intimidated and harassed since June

Written by Hong Kong Free Press

16 September 2024

Operation Knock Knock: On the hunt for dissident voices in Venezuela

Venezuelan security forces target dissident voices in an operation informally called Operation Knock Knock

Written by ProBox

12 September 2024

VenApp, the Chavista app co-opted for harassment in Venezuela

The app was boycotted and reported after the presidential election

Written by ProBox

11 September 2024

What you need to know about the X (formerly Twitter) situation in Brazil

Without a representative in the country, the platform was suspended following a Brazilian Supreme Court ruling

Written by Global Voices Brazil

7 September 2024

Ahead of its controversial elections, Tunisia bans magazine Jeune Afrique for criticizing the president

The banning of Jeune Afrique is another step in Kais Saied’s clampdown on independent media, further undoing the democratic gains of the 2011 revolution

Written by Walid El Houri

6 September 2024

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