Security News > 2019 > November > Global internet freedom declines for the ninth consecutive year

Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, tilting the technology toward digital authoritarianism. As a result of these trends, global internet freedom declined for the ninth consecutive year, according to Freedom House. Adding to the problem of meddling by foreign regimes, a new menace to democracy has risen from within, as populist leaders and their armies of online supporters seek to distort politics at home. Domestic … More → The post Global internet freedom declines for the ninth consecutive year appeared first on Help Net Security.

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