November 2024

Tracking Platform Integrity on the Eve of the Election

In April 2024, Free Press released a report on social-media companies’ commitments to 2024 election integrity. We analyzed 12 major technology companies’ readiness to address political disinformation, manipulation and hate on their networks. Free Press scored the companies’ responses (or lack thereof) as either “Adequate,” “Partial,” “Insufficient” or “Fail.” Now, less than a week before Election Day, Free Press has revisited and updated its April analysis.

Election 2024: What will the candidates do about the digital divide?

Broadband access in poorer and more rural communities has been a major campaign issue since 2008.