Special Reports

Freedom House is piloting a new research initiative to investigate the interplay between digital platforms and election integrity. Election Watch for the Digital Age equips technology companies, civil society organizations, and policymakers with a data-driven resource for evaluating the human rights impact of internet platforms on a country’s electoral process. 

The essays cover digital tools of repression, coercion-by-proxy, how transnational repression impacts the ability of exiles and diasporas to engage in activism, and the ways that authoritarian states use higher education as a means to control discourse.