Freedom House’s “Freedom on the Internet” report for 2023 has been published. Turkey ranked 55th among 70 countries with 30 points and was described as “a country that is not free on the internet”.
Freedom House, a US-based human rights organization, evaluates internet freedoms around the world.Freedom on the Internet” published its report. The results showed that Turkey continues to go backwards in this regard.
The country that ranks highest in internet freedom in Freedom House’s 2023 report is the country with a score of 94 out of 100. Iceland happened. Iceland was followed by Estonia with 93 points and Canada with 88 points. China ranked last with 9 points.
Türkiye ranks 55th out of 70 countries
The report finds that internet freedom continues to rise around the world. has been declining for 13 years showed. It was stated that people in 55 countries faced legal sanctions for expressing their opinions on the internet, while in 41 countries people were physically attacked and killed because of their online comments.
Freedom House, according to its scores in its report 17 countries “free” He described it as. 32 countries are “partly free”, 21 countries are “not free” It was described as. Türkiye, ranked 55th, was also among the countries that were not free.
Turkey is rated out of 100 in the scoring, which considers three criteria: access barriers, content restrictions and user rights violations. 30 points took. He received 12 points from the first, 10 from the second, and 8 from the third. As you can imagine, those with higher scores in these criteria were described as more “free”.
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Artificial intelligence was also one of the focal points of the report. According to Freedom House, artificial intelligence-generated fake content has been used by governments. An example from Turkey was the showing of edited videos of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu during the election period.