New Freedom House report shows internet freedom falling for 15th year, with the U.S. and Germany among the democracies losing ground.

WASHINGTON: The United States and Germany are among the Western democracies that have now joined authoritarian states in imposing growing restrictions online, an annual survey by Freedom ...

Factors such as criminal prosecution of memes about politicians, increased self-censorship, and cyberattacks are leading to a ...

The latest annual report on online trends from Freedom House, published earlier this month, is predictably bleak. The democracy watchdog group says digital liberties worldwide deteriorated for the ...

Freedom House’s latest assessment of Internet freedom highlights an upside-down trend among states in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Among those regional states deemed either “free” or “partly free,” ...

Freedom House’s 2025 report ranked Pakistan as ‘Not Free’ in internet freedom, citing online censorship, threats to block ...

Bangladesh’s internet freedom has improved significantly, rising to a score of 45 out of 100 in the Freedom on the Net 2025 ...

Nepal's crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek ...