Acknowledgments

Ranking Digital Rights staff:

• Jessica Dheere, Director
• Rebecca MacKinnon, Founding Director
• Amy Brouillette, Research Director
• Ellery Roberts Biddle, Editorial Director
• Lisa Gutermuth, Senior Program Manager
• Nathalie Maréchal, Senior Policy Analyst
• Elizabeth M. Renieris, Senior Policy Consultant
• Veszna Wessenauer, Research Manager
• Jan Rydzak, Company Engagement Lead and Research Analyst
• Ilja Sperling, Tech Lead
• Afef Abrougui, Corporate Accountability Editor
• Zak Rogoff, Research Analyst
• Jie Zhang, Research Analyst
• Aliya Bhatia, Communications Officer
• Kelly Ross, Operations Associate
• Gaby Walton, Tech Intern

Contributing researchers: Joan Barata, Arindrajit Basu, Lucía Camacho Gutiérrez, Krzysztof Garstka, Elonnai Hickok, Dumitrita Holdis, Kelly Kim, Michael Kowen, Ginny Kozemczak, Cannelle Lavite, Tanya Lokot, Amy McEwan-Strand, Bojan Perkov, Outi Puukko, Viviana Rangel, Laura Reed, Moussa Saleh, Mariam Al Shafie, Eva Simon, Jiwon Son, Florian Wittner, Benjamin Zhou

We thank all stakeholders who provided feedback on the development of the 2020 RDR Index methodology. We give special thanks to Courtney Radsch and Michael Samway for offering feedback on our results and analysis.

Design concept and graphics: Olivia Solis

Development and production: Christo Buschek

Copyediting: Sabrina Detlef

About Ranking Digital Rights

Ranking Digital Rights is a non-profit research program housed at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute. We work to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global, human rights-based standards and incentives for companies to respect and protect users’ rights. We do this by ranking the world’s most powerful digital platforms and telecommunications companies on relevant commitments and policies in the RDR Corporate Accountability Index. We work with companies as well as advocates, researchers, investors, and policymakers to establish and advance global standards for corporate accountability.

For more about Ranking Digital Rights’ vision, impact, and strategy, visit our website: rankingdigitalrights.org/about/

For more about New America, visit www.newamerica.org.

For more about the Open Technology Institute, visit www.newamerica.org/oti.

Funders

We are grateful to our funders for their ongoing support and enthusiasm for RDR’s work. They include:

• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• Luminate
• Ford Foundation
• Open Society Foundations
• Mozilla Foundation
• Craig Newmark Philanthropies
• Democracy Fund
• U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

For a full list of current and former project funders and partners, please see: rankingdigitalrights.org/who/partners.

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