Digital Action
Big Tech’s staggering wealth and power has allowed them to evade accountability… up till now.
Since 2019, Digital Action has been mobilizing a global network of partners to demand better standards from the governments and corporations responsible for our digital environments. Social media companies have acquired billions of users across the world. Their extractive business practices, from irresponsible data gathering to inscrutable algorithms, have generated a wide range of digital threats to democracy and human rights. All of this can bring severe offline consequences, from encouraging violence, to intensifying societal inequalities, polluting public discourse moments of crisis and opportunity for democratic rights. That’s why we campaign with partners around the globe to hold Big Tech companies accountable. We are a 501(c)3 fiscally sponsored project based in the US. Our team is based in Zambia, Palestine, Germany, Spain, the UK and the US.
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Our team are experts in campaigning and building coalitions. We bring civil society organisations together to influence policy and denounce digital threats that have real-world consequences.
Building the AI Commons: Join Us in Democratizing AI’s Future
Women’s Rights Online: Shaping policy and practice to improve women’s experience online
UK elections and the Online Safety agenda: Building a network of allies to influence policy
Mobilising and coordinating rapid responses to digital harms
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The Role of Tech Companies in Conflicts: The Deadly Consequences of Online Disinformation in SWANA
Mona Shtaya in collaboration with our partners Beam Reports and Kashif. Background Tech companies play an increasingly central role...
The Invisible Censorship: How Shadow Banning Silences Voices Across Latin America
Vladimir Cortés Roshdestvensky Mexican journalist David Morales watched his news outlet’s Facebook reach plummet overnight. Chiapas Sin Censura had...
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