Assessing the transparency of 14 of the world’s most powerful tech giants and 43 of their platforms on critical issues affecting people’s rights to free expression and privacy.

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It’s time to reboot the system.

Three years of geopolitical earthquakes and dramatic shifts in technology have only entrenched the power of Big Tech companies. They needed to step up to protect people’s rights from new and existing threats. But instead of big breakthroughs, we found some big breakdowns — and plenty of stagnation.

Meta3
47%
Apple4
44%
Kakao4
44%
X7
40%
Yandex8
37%
Baidu9
33%
Tencent11
30%
Samsung12
28%
Amazon13
27%
VK13
27%

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Key Findings

Coming May 1!

Three years on, U.S. tech giants are moving slow and not fixing things

Why Chinese companies are racing to improve on transparency

Private platforms are falling short on transparent governance

User data fuels Big Tech’s algorithms, and there’s no opting out.