Digital Authoritarianism – Digital Rights 4 Gulf

Platform Compliance in the Middle East: How Opaque Content Moderation Enables Quiet Authoritarian Censorship

Editor Editor / January 25, 2026

Across the MENA region, particularly in the Gulf, political speech increasingly disappears from major platforms not through court orders or

In the Gulf region, there has been a shift in social dynamics. Surveillance, infiltration, and censorship; facilitated by authoritarian states

Freedoms in Decline and the Rise of Digital Authoritarianism Freedom around the world is in decline. With few exceptions, democracies

Editor Editor / February 17, 2025

In the Gulf region, the relationship between state interests and Big Tech operations has raised significant concerns amongst human rights

Editor Editor / February 5, 2025

While international law establishes foundational principles to combat digital authoritarianism, it is often the local legal frameworks that shape the

Perhaps not-so-well-known, transnational repression constitutes a threat to human rights that has been going on for decades. The phenomenon, which

In a world increasingly driven by data, where over 50 billion connected devices generate vast amounts of information daily, the

In the last twenty years, authoritarianism has progressively increased.At the same time, there has been swift advancement and extensive dissemination