Broad support for internet freedom around the world
Many people around the world consider free expression in cyberspace to be a fundamental right.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Many people around the world consider free expression in cyberspace to be a fundamental right.
In our survey of thousands of people across 32 emerging and developing nations, we found some notable data points that might have been lost in the fray.
President Obama’s recent interviews with Buzzfeed and Vox, and his embrace of online news and social media more generally, stands in a long tradition of presidents employing novel communications technologies to speak to Americans directly.
Only 32% of Turks said that the media is having a good influence on the way things are going in Turkey.
While half of Indian internet users regularly access social media sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, only about a third of these users share views about politics on these social networks.
Within a remarkably short period of time, some developing nations are catching up to the U.S. in technology use.
The early-August suicide of a 14-year-old British girl and her father’s anguished Facebook posts about it has prompted the website Ask.fm to beef up its anti-bullying tools and practices. It has also reignited the debate over the extent of online bullying and its impact. Ask.fm is a Latvia-based site that allows users to pose and […]
Cell phones are owned by large majorities of people in major countries around the world, and they are used for much more than just phone calls. In particular, texting is widespread in both wealthy nations and the developing world. Social networking is also popular in many nations around the globe.
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