Every year, we evaluate 26 of the world’s most powerful digital platforms and telecom companies on how well they uphold the human rights that are fundamental to our dignity and democracy.
In its response to our letter campaign with Access Now, Meta takes issue with aspects of its score in RDR’s 2022 Big Tech Scorecard. Here’s why we stand by our results. Ranking Digital Rights wishes to address Meta’s response to the letter campaign led by
Investor advocacy and shareholder action on human rights topics have reached unprecedented levels this year. Five of the largest global tech companies—Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Twitter—all faced a record number of shareholder resolutions. The rise of investing based on environmental, social, and governance
Ranking Digital Rights has once again partnered with Global Voices Translation Services to translate the executive summary of the 2022 Big Tech Scorecard into six major languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Korean, Russian, and Spanish! The RDR Big Tech Scorecard evaluates 14 companies, whose products and
How GLAAD is keeping social media companies accountable through its Social Media Safety Index and its new Platform Scorecard. Last month, hate and harassment of LGBTQ social media users made headlines when actor Elliot Page was deadnamed and misgendered on Twitter by conservative author and
RDR’s 2022 Big Tech Scorecard underlined the dire state of privacy among digital platforms. None of the 14 companies we ranked topped a score of 60 percent, and privacy was the lowest-scoring of our three categories (the others being governance and freedom of expression and
As a researcher at Temple University in Philadelphia, I study how stories about social problems and their possible solutions make their way into the mainstream media, how they get covered, and how audiences respond to them. One key question I look at is: How do
Meta released its first-ever “Annual” Human Rights Report last week, looking at the company’s purported progress toward meeting its human rights obligations from 2020 through 2021. This release follows years of criticism from civil society about Meta’s failure to act in response to accusations of
Over the past weeks, Amazon, Meta, Twitter, and Alphabet (Google) all faced a shareholder reckoning. Nearly 50 petitions launched by investors across the four tech giants called on them to come clean on an array of issues. Many of those issues were related to human
Today Ranking Digital Rights sent a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) urging the agency to ban multi-class share structures and to repeal SEC rules that limit the ability of investors to file and resubmit shareholder resolutions. These two practices undermine
Panel Discussion: Charting the Future of Big Tech Accountability Big Tech accountability has come a long way since Ranking Digital Rights’ inaugural report in 2015. More than ever, the companies we rank make explicit commitments to human rights, disclose how they handle government demands,
