Rights-Based Approaches to Online Content
Governments and companies are under increasing pressure to address illegal or undesirable content and expression online, but hasty or poorly crafted solutions threaten human rights. We advocate for policies and practices to defend free expression and access to information and ensure people who are most at risk are protected.
Content governance in times of crisis: how platforms can protect human rights
In situations of armed conflicts and other crises, people use social media and messaging platforms to document human rights abuses or war crimes, access information, mobilize for action, and crowdsource humanitarian assistance.
Resources
Content Governance
Guide: how to protect human rights in content governance
We offer 26 recommendations on content governance to help lawmakers, regulators, and company leaders make decisions that will safeguard human rights.
Content Governance
What is disinformation, why it spreads, and how to stop it
Our new report explores what disinformation is, and how lawmakers can address the harms it poses to democracy.
Content Governance
The Digital Services Act: your guide to the EU’s new content moderation rules
The EU Digital Services Act has finally arrived. We unpack what this law contains and the changes people can expect to see from 2024 onwards.
Content Governance
Digital Security Helpline: our approach to content-related cases
Critical voices from civil society are being censored. Here’s how the Digital Security Helpline addresses cases related to content governance.
Content Governance
Meta’s actions “adversely impacted” Palestinians’ rights: Access Now welcomes BSR findings
Access Now welcomes the release of BSR’s human rights due diligence findings that expose Meta’s rights-violating actions against people in Palestine.
Content Governance
What does Musk’s “free speech” look like for the rest of us?
Elon Musk’s simplistic views of freedom of expression could catapult Twitter from a toxic space to a worse one — especially for those of us tweeting from the margins.
Content Governance
Access Now to Telegram: protect the rights of 500 million people
Access Now and a coalition of civil society organizations are sounding the alarm over safety and security issues plaguing Telegram.
Content Governance
Access Now releases “Fighting misinformation and defending free expression during COVID-19: recommendations for states”
We have identified practical examples and promising practices to support policy makers in respecting human rights while developing measures to address disinformation and misinformation during the COVID-19 crisis.
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लोकसभा चुनाव से पहले यूट्यूब भ्रमित करने वाले विज्ञापनों को जगह दे रहा है: रिपोर्ट
Blocked, demonetised, and censored: what some news channels in India are facing on YouTube
YouTube approves disinformation ads in India in run up to election
Why YouTube remains a fertile ground for electoral disinformation?
Did YouTube green-lit ads with disinformation on Indian elections?
YouTube okayed ads with polls disinfo, report finds. ‘Ads withdrawn before our checks,’ says platform
YouTube approved ads spreading misinfo about India’s poll process: Investigation
What exactly is Instagram’s political content filter filtering out?
Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, YouTube approved ads with disinformation on Indian elections: Report
YouTube nod to 48 ads with disinformation on Indian elections: Report
YouTube approves disinformation ads in India ahead of general election
YouTube is approving election disinformation ads in India ahead of the country’s general election, a new joint investigation by Access Now and Global Witness has found.
लोकसभा चुनाव से पहले भारत में भ्रमित करने वाले विज्ञापनों को मंजूरी दे रहा यूट्यूब
एक्सेस नाउ और ग्लोबल विटनेस की नई संयुक्त जांच में पाया गया है कि यूट्यूब देश के लोकसभा चुनाव से पहले भारत में चुनावी रूप से भ्रमित करने वाले विज्ञापनों को मंजूरी दे रहा है।
భారతదేశంలో సార్వత్రిక ఎన్నికలకు ముందు అసత్య సమాచార ప్రకటనలను యూట్యూబ్ ఆమోదించింది.
దేశంలో సార్వత్రిక ఎన్నికలకు ముందు ఎన్నికల గురించి జరిగే అసత్య ప్రకటనలను యూట్యూబ్ ఆమోదిస్తోందని యాక్సెస్ నౌ (Access Now) మరియూ గ్లోబల్ విట్నెస్ (Global Witness) సంయుక్తoగా చేపట్టిన కొత్త పరిశోధనలో వెల్లడైంది.
YouTube approved ads promoting disinformation on India’s election
YouTube failed to block disinformation about Indian elections, researchers find
Meta is revisiting its hate speech policy on Zionism — here’s why it’s (still) a bad idea
Meta is (re)considering how to moderate content involving the term “Zionist.” Here’s why this hate speech policy is (still) a bad idea.