The 2022 Big Tech Scorecard
Each year, Ranking Digital Rights evaluates and ranks 14 of the world’s most powerful digital platforms on their policies and practices affecting people’s rights to freedom of expression and privacy.
Big Tech Keeps Failing Us
For the sixth consecutive year, not one digital platform earned a passing grade in our ranking. While we see some incremental progress overall, this is no time for business as usual. Companies must improve their governance and accelerate their adoption of human rights standards to protect their users and the public interest.
Read Our Key FindingsExplore the Data!
Watch a fascinating discussion on the future of Big Tech accountability with RDR's superstar panel. Hear what they have to say and new legislation, ESG shareholder resolutions targeting human rights harms, and how we can hold Big Tech accountable.
Visit the Data ExplorerWhat’s Next for Big Tech Accountability?
On May 4, RDR brought together a panel of digital rights activists with deep experience taking on Big Tech. We asked them to assess the current landscape and look to the future in terms of activism, regulation, and accountability. As the panelists made clear, our very democracies are at stake.
RDR Director Jessica Dheere kicked off the event with key findings from the Big Tech Scorecard, after which Nathalie Maréchal, our policy director, moderated the wide-ranging discussion. Topics covered included European and US legislation, the threat of too much power over digital platforms in the hands of too few individuals, and the future of privacy.
Watch the full discussion on our website, tracker-free.
Featured Essays
Key Findings from the 2022 RDR Big Tech Scorecard.
For a global internet that supports and sustains human rights, we need a global online advertising ecosystem that does the same thing.
It’s time to bring down the barriers blocking shareholders on human rights.
Chinese companies may want to engage with civil society. But in the era of Xi Jinping, it’s not that simple.