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 this conversation, RDR’s Global Partnerships Manager Leandro Ucciferri and Senior Editor Sophia Crabbe-Field speak with Jenni Olson, the Senior Director of Social Media Safety at GLAAD, the national LGBTQ media advocacy organization, which campaigns on behalf of LGBTQ people in film, television, and print
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
External Research Advisor zhang@rankingdigitalrights.org Jie Zhang is a Research Manager at the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable(ICAR), where she focuses on advancing corporate accountability in the technology sector through research and cross-sector collaboration. She contributes to Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) as an External Research Advisor, providing
Research Manager dias@rankingdigitalrights.org Tayrine joined the RDR team in 2024. Prior to joining the World Benchmarking Alliance in 2024, she completed a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. As a researcher on the Digital team at WBA (which encompassed
