Freedom House, a US-based human rights organization, evaluates internet freedoms around the world.Freedom on the Internetpublished his report. The results showed that Turkey is still declining in this regard.

The country that scores highest in internet freedom according to the 2023 Freedom House 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 is in last place with 9 points.

Türkiye ranks 55th out of 70 countries

The report shows that internet freedom continues to increase around the world. has been declining for 13 years showed. It said people in 55 countries faced legal sanctions for expressing their opinions on the internet, while in 41 countries people were physically attacked and killed for their online comments.

Freedom House, according to the 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 receives a score of 100 in the score, which takes into account three criteria: access barriers, content restrictions and user rights violations. 30 points taken. He got 12 points from the first, 10 from the second and 8 from the third. As you can imagine, those with higher scores on these criteria were described as “freer.”

Artificial intelligence was also one of the focuses 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.