Technology should strengthen democracy, not undermine it. We work to protect electoral integrity, civic participation, and access to information, resisting disinformation that distorts public debate.
Elections are now contested online first
Claims circulate, screenshots are shared, accounts are impersonated, and institutions are asked to adjudicate digital evidence they were not designed to assess. How they do that — and how openly — shapes whether the result is believed.
In April 2026, screenshots circulated claiming that an X account belonged to the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The Commission commissioned a forensic examination, announced that the account was fake, and then declined to release the report. We asked the Federal High Court to compel disclosure.
We are not asking a court to disturb that conclusion. We are asking it to require the Commission to show its work. An institution that will not disclose a report clearing its own chairman will struggle to be believed when it discloses one that does not — and it will be asked to weigh contested digital evidence far more often as elections move onto platforms it does not control.
Regulation ahead of a vote deserves particular scrutiny
Measures introduced in the run-up to an election shape what voters hear. That is why we rejected the National Broadcasting Commission’s public notice threatening sanctions for journalists’ “personal opinions”, and why we treat rules governing broadcast and online speech before 2027 as an electoral integrity question, not merely a media one.
Disinformation, without the cure being worse
False information genuinely distorts public debate. But powers created to address it are regularly used against critics, so we argue for responses that do not depend on criminalising speech: transparency about political advertising and platform enforcement, faster correction rather than removal, and public institutions that publish their own evidence.
Democratic participation also depends on ordinary access to information — including the publication of laws once they are signed, so that citizens can read the rules they are expected to obey.
If you have been targeted over election-related commentary or organising, report a case to us.