[Editor’s Note: Independent security consultant Christopher Budd worked previously in Microsoft’s Security Response Center for 10 years.] Commentary: Yes, 2020 really sucked. But it could have been ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Government-imposed internet blackouts increased in length by 49% in 2020 compared to 2019, per research by digital security and rights group ...

For years, social-media platforms had held firm: Just because a post was false didn’t mean it was their place to do anything about it. But 2020 changed their minds. As if to make clear how far things ...

We were all online more than we’d have liked this year. All the time we were meant to spend at dinner or the movies was instead spent scrolling for news—good news, bad news, what’s the difference? The ...

Look, even without COVID, 2020 was going to be garbage. It was an election year, for fuck’s sake, so a glut of unhinged political punditry was destined to clog up our social media feeds and needle our ...

Lee Rainie, Director of Internet and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center, presented this material on October 14, 2020 at a gathering sponsored by the International Institute of ...

Iceland is the world’s best protector of internet freedom, while China is the worst. See where the U.S. ranks among 65 countries. While the U.S. is one of the top 10 countries in the world for ...

Lee Rainie, Director of Internet and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center, presented this material on October 29, 2020 to scholars, policy makers and civil society advocates convened by New ...