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.

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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.

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Yahoo2
54%
Google4
47%
Meta5
46%
Apple6
44%
Kakao6
44%
Yandex8
35%
Baidu9
28%
VK9
28%
Alibaba11
26%
Samsung11
26%
Amazon13
25%
Tencent13
25%

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Which companies commit to human rights? Who does the best job describing how they moderate content? Where is your data safest in case of a breach? How has Apple’s scores changed over time? Drill down into hundreds of thousands of data points to answer questions like these in our enhanced Data Explorer.

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Charting the Future of Big Tech Accountability
Charting the Future of Big Tech Accountability

What’s Next for Big Tech Accountability?

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Featured Essays

Key Findings
Key Findings
Key Findings

Key Findings from the 2022 RDR Big Tech Scorecard.

We Must Govern Online Ads
We Must Govern Online Ads
We Must Govern Online Ads

For a global internet that supports and sustains human rights, we need a global online advertising ecosystem that does the same thing.

Empowering Big Tech Shareholders
Empowering Big Tech Shareholders
Empowering Big Tech Shareholders

It’s time to bring down the barriers blocking shareholders on human rights.

Why Won't Chinese Companies Talk to Us?
Why Won't Chinese Companies Talk to Us?
Why Won't Chinese Companies Talk to Us?

Chinese companies may want to engage with civil society. But in the era of Xi Jinping, it’s not that simple.