𝕏 freedom index

Tied with Myanmar at 9/100. Contrast with Brazil: there is no public 𝕏 ranking-filter code to audit — the platform is simply unreachable.

Tied with China as the world’s worst FotN environment. Social platforms including 𝕏 are broadly blocked by the junta; surveillance kit is installed on civilian networks.

Nearly all major foreign social platforms remain blocked. WhatsApp and Google Play restrictions were lifted in Dec 2024; 𝕏 was not.

A new FotN low. Before the 2022 block, Russia was among 𝕏’s highest-volume legal-demand countries — volume that is now invisible because the platform is gone.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. RSF rank improved sharply in 2026; digital infrastructure and residual censorship still limit the open web.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 is intermittently reachable; the binding constraint is Taliban speech law, not a technical block of 𝕏 alone.

𝕏 is technically reachable via some networks but independent Belarusian media on the platform is treated as extremist content at the ISP layer.

𝕏 is not formally banned nationwide but is throttled, expensive, and policed. Connectivity itself is the first filter.

A high-volume legal-pressure state that does not need to block 𝕏: decree-level takedown clocks do the work.

𝕏 is open. The restriction is downstream: users, not packets. Volume of formal 𝕏 legal requests is unpublished in the latest breakout.

𝕏 is periodically throttled rather than permanently banned. Decline was one of the year’s most severe, with Kenya and Georgia.

A canonical “block first, negotiate later” case — the opposite of a public, auditable ranking filter.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 access has fluctuated; independent media remains tightly licensed.

𝕏 is reachable; independent news about Egypt on 𝕏 is often unreachable from inside Egypt because the linked sites are blocked.

Open pipe, closed speech. Same pattern as Saudi Arabia: the platform is not the control surface — the criminal code is.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 is generally accessible; legal risk is the binding constraint.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. “Restriction” here is often a blackout, not a content filter.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 is open; user-rights violations, not blocking, drive the score.

A rare 2025 improvement among Not Free states, still well below the Partly Free line. 𝕏 is reachable except during shutdowns.

The textbook high-volume legal-request state. Unlike Brazil, none of that pressure appears as an auditable hard-coded ranking filter in the public x-algorithm repo.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 is reachable except during ordered slowdowns.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 is generally reachable; independent Azerbaijani media often is not.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 is open; the constraint is criminal law and exile targeting, not a national block.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure (sits on the Not Free line). 𝕏 is up; individual posts are the unit of control.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 access has been cut during protest waves.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 is open; the National Internet Gateway is the longer-term control surface.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. Fragmented coercion, not a national 𝕏 block.

A reminder that scores move. +5 is large by FotN standards; the country remains Partly Free and RSF rank is still poor.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. Once the region’s relatively open holdout; no longer.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. Temporary blocks are the preferred instrument.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. Platform-selective blocking (Facebook vs 𝕏) is the local pattern.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. A licensing-and-blocklist model, not a hard national ban.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 is open; the state’s grip is legal and militia-adjacent, not a firewall.

𝕏 is open and politically central. Pressure arrives as legal orders and shutdowns, not a published ranking filter in x-algorithm.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 is open; the new statute is the thing to watch.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. A precision-legal model: 𝕏 stays up; specific posts are labeled or removed.

𝕏 is open. The three taboo topics are enforced by prosecution, not by blocking the platform.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. RSF rank is far better than the FotN band — a useful reminder the two indexes measure different things.

𝕏 was a primary organizing surface for the 2024 protests. The score drop is about user rights and protest policing, not a platform ban.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. Licensing-and-takedown, not a national 𝕏 block.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. Decree 54 is the live mechanism — a speech crime, not a firewall.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. 𝕏 is open after the 2021 ban — a reminder that “open” can be reversed by executive order.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. Wartime constraints, not peacetime political censorship of 𝕏.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. Litigation, not blocking.

𝕏 is open. The FotN drag is violence and surveillance, not a government block of the platform.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure.

Hard-coded ranking filter required by electoral law. Posts from flagged 2026-election candidate accounts are dropped from For You unless the viewer already follows them. This is public in https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm — unlike the silent blocks and bulk legal demands used elsewhere.

High request volume does not equal a China-style firewall. Korea shows why raw 𝕏-request counts are a poor oppressiveness proxy.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. An EU member with no 𝕏 block and a captured domestic information space.

𝕏 is open and was a protest channel. The drop is legal-political, not a platform ban. Watch for a 2026 status flip.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. Among the freest environments on the African continent.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure. RSF rank is much weaker than FotN — another index split.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure.

𝕏 is fully open. The US decline is about user-rights and chilling effects, not ISP-level censorship of 𝕏.

Among the Free-cohort declines of 2025 (with the US and Georgia). High legal-request volume reflects hate-speech statute, not a firewall.

FotN score is the 2024 published figure.

An example of a Free country that still issues binding platform orders — visible as legal process, not as a hard-coded ranking filter.

Open platform, ordinary European notice-and-action. Contrast with Turkey’s throttle-and-flood model.

𝕏 is open. The Online Safety Act is the live statutory risk; it has not been used to take 𝕏 offline.

The strongest single argument that request volume ≠ oppressiveness. Japan files more 𝕏 legal demands than the rest of the published table combined, and still ranks Free at 78.

2025 FotN figure as reported in secondary compilations of the Freedom House release; status Free.

Open 𝕏 environment. The 2025 ding is about the news-bargaining fight and its collateral damage, not government filtering of 𝕏.

2025 FotN figure as reported in contemporaneous compilations of the Freedom House release.

A Southern Cone benchmark. 𝕏 is fully open; RSF rank is weaker than FotN, driven by press-market issues rather than blocking.

Second-freest FotN environment. The deduction is a due-process case, not a filtering apparatus.

The ceiling of the index. Useful as the reference point when reading every other row.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Media ownership concentration is the usual RSF concern. No FotN score.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is generally reachable. Hirak-era prosecutions of social-media speech are documented; no FotN score and no compiled national tweet-arrest FOI here.

Not in FotN. RSF 19th. 𝕏 is open. Criminal hate-speech law exists; no compiled national tweet-arrest FOI in this file.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Small media market; no compiled tweet-arrest series.

Not in FotN. RSF 16th. 𝕏 is open. Covered by the EU DSA aggregate in 𝕏’s H2 2024 report.

Not in FotN. RSF 66th. 𝕏 is open. Small media market.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Digital-code prosecutions of journalists have been documented in recent years.

Not in FotN. RSF 150th. 𝕏 is reachable. Small media market; no compiled tweet-arrest series.

Not in FotN. RSF 91st. Polarized media and protest-period restrictions. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Fragmented media regulation across entities. No compiled tweet-arrest series.

Not in FotN. RSF 63rd. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. Absolute monarchy. 𝕏 is reachable; criticism of the sultan is not. Sedition and sharia-era speech offences are the control surface. No compiled tweet-arrest series.

Not in FotN. RSF 71st. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. Junta-era suspensions of French and independent media. Social-media criticism of the military is high-risk.

Not in FotN. Long-running pressure on independent media. 𝕏 is not a mass platform.

Not in FotN. Anglophone-crisis shutdowns are the documented internet-freedom story. 𝕏 is usually reachable in the rest of the country.

Not in FotN. Conflict and weak connectivity dominate. No national 𝕏 block is documented here.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is generally reachable. Transition-era protest restrictions have included connectivity cuts.

Not in FotN. RSF 68th. 𝕏 is generally reachable. Small official media market.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Election-period tension is the usual risk window. No compiled tweet-arrest series.

Not in FotN. RSF 53rd. 𝕏 is open. EU member.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. EU member. The map geometry is the Republic of Cyprus.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. EU DSA applies. A Central European peer of the FotN sample.

Not in FotN. RSF 130th. Election-period social-media restrictions have been used. No FotN score.

Not in FotN. RSF 4th. 𝕏 is open. A standard European DSA jurisdiction; no compiled tweet-arrest series here.

Not in FotN. Tightly controlled civic space. 𝕏 is reachable; independent reporting is not.

Not in FotN. RSF 44th. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. Bukele-era concentration of power and pressure on critical media, much of it on 𝕏. No FotN score.

Not in FotN. One of Africa’s most closed civic spaces. 𝕏 is not a mass public square.

Not in FotN. RSF last (180) for the third year. FiW 2026: 3/100. Independent media shut since 2001. Dawit Isaak jailed without trial for 25 years. CPJ: 16 journalists imprisoned 1 Dec 2025.

Not in FotN. Absolute monarchy. Protest-period internet restrictions and royal-insult cases. 𝕏 is reachable with political risk.

UK overseas territory. Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. UK communications law applies locally; no separate Freedom House internet row.

Not in FotN. RSF 24th. 𝕏 is open. Media-commission era restrictions have eased versus the Bainimarama years.

Not in FotN. RSF 6th. FiW 2026: 100. 𝕏 is open. Included so Nordic peers of Iceland (FotN 94) are not greyed out.

Not in FotN. RSF 43rd. Post-2023 transition. 𝕏 is generally open.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. RSF has flagged predator-spyware and press-safety cases in recent years. No FotN score.

Danish realm. Not a FotN country. 𝕏 is open. Covered by Denmark’s legal order; no separate Freedom House internet-freedom score.

Not in FotN. RSF 128th. Criminalization of journalists (José Rubén Zamora and others). 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. Junta-era protest and media restrictions. 𝕏 is generally reachable.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Small media market.

Not in FotN. RSF 76th. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. RSF 107th. Gang control and collapsed state capacity, not a national 𝕏 ban, are the constraint.

Not in FotN. RSF 132nd. Violence against journalists is the binding constraint. 𝕏 is open.

Not a FotN country row. RSF 2026: 140th. National-security law has collapsed a previously open press environment. 𝕏 is reachable; political speech is not safe. CPJ’s China census includes journalists held in Hong Kong.

Not in FotN. RSF 2026: 7th. Freedom in the World 2026: 98/100, Free. 𝕏 is open. Coco’s Law is the user-level statute — Garda recorded 400+ charges and 552 “grossly offensive communication” incidents from Jan 2023 to Feb 2026, mostly intimate-image abuse, not a UK-style tweet-arrest FOI.

Not in FotN. RSF 2026: 116th (−4). FiW 2025: 73, Free. CIVICUS 39, Repressed. CPJ: 29 Palestinian journalists held by Israel on 1 Dec 2025. 𝕏 is open inside Israel.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Small English-speaking Caribbean media market. No compiled tweet-arrest series.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Partial international recognition. No Freedom House internet-freedom score.

Not in FotN. RSF 136th. 𝕏 is open and politically central. Cybercrime statute has been used against tweets criticizing the emir or foreign states.

Not in FotN. RSF 154th. One-party state. Social-media criticism of the party is criminalized. 𝕏 is not a mass platform.

Not in FotN. Baltic peer of Estonia (FotN 91). 𝕏 is open. EU Russian-state media restrictions apply.

Not in FotN. RSF 89th. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. RSF 58th. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. RSF 15th. 𝕏 is open. EU/NATO member; Russian-state media restrictions at the EU level.

Not in FotN. RSF 9th. 𝕏 is open. EU DSA applies.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Election-period media pressure is the usual RSF note.

Not in FotN. RSF 121st. Junta-era media and social-media pressure. 𝕏 is reachable with political risk.

Not in FotN. RSF 67th. 𝕏 is open. Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder still shapes the press-freedom file.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Blasphemy and racial-speech cases have involved social media.

Not in FotN. RSF 31st. 𝕏 is open. Wartime-adjacent information rules vis-à-vis Russia; no FotN score.

Not in FotN. RSF 85th. 𝕏 is generally open. No compiled tweet-arrest series.

Not in FotN. RSF 41st. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. RSF 99th. Cabo Delgado conflict reporting is high-risk. 𝕏 is generally reachable.

Not in FotN. RSF 23rd. 𝕏 is open. One of Africa’s stronger press-freedom ranks.

Not in FotN. RSF 87th. 𝕏 is open. Periodic social-media bills and takedown pressure. No FotN score.

French overseas collectivity. Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Covered by French and EU speech law; no separate Freedom House internet row.

Not in FotN. RSF 22nd. FiW 2026: 99. 𝕏 is open. A Pacific peer of Australia (FotN 75).

Not in FotN. Independent media dismantled or exiled. 𝕏 is technically reachable; domestic critical journalism is not.

Not in FotN. RSF 120th. Post-2023 coup information controls. 𝕏 access has fluctuated.

Not in FotN — Freedom House does not score it. FiW 2026: 3/100. RSF 179th. CIVICUS 2, Closed. There is no independent internet and no 𝕏.

Not in FotN. RSF 45th. 𝕏 is open.

Drawn on the map; not a UN member. Not in FotN. 𝕏 is reachable. No separate Freedom House internet-freedom score.

Not in FotN. RSF #1 for the tenth year. FiW 2026: 99. CIVICUS 98, Open. The open end of the wider sample.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is reachable. Cybercrime law is the usual instrument against critical posts. No compiled national tweet-arrest total.

Not in FotN. RSF 2026: 156th. Overlaps with CPJ’s Israel jail count. Connectivity and reporting conditions in Gaza are themselves the story. 𝕏 access fluctuates with power and networks.

Not in FotN. RSF 65th. 𝕏 is open. 2023–25 protest and mining-contract coverage was a live press-freedom test.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Connectivity, not a national firewall, is the binding constraint.

Not in FotN. RSF 88th. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. RSF 144th. Protest-period journalist attacks after 2022. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Post-2023 media reforms are in motion; RSF has tracked the public-media fight. No FotN score.

Not in FotN. RSF 10th. 𝕏 is open. EU DSA applies.

US territory. Not a FotN country row. First Amendment applies; 𝕏 is open. Included because it is on the map.

Not in FotN. CIVICUS 21, Repressed. 𝕏 is widely used, including by officials. Criminal law, not a platform block, is the control surface. No compiled tweet-arrest series.

Not in FotN. RSF 49th. 𝕏 is open. EU DSA applies.

Not in FotN. RSF 78th. 2023–24 protest-period mobile/social restrictions are documented. 𝕏 is otherwise open.

Not in FotN. RSF 104th. 𝕏 is open. Documented capture of much of the media market; no FotN score.

Not in FotN. RSF 79th. 𝕏 is open. Cybercrime bill debates are the live legal risk.

Not in FotN. RSF 37th. 𝕏 is open. Recent pressure on public media is documented by RSF; no FotN score.

Not in FotN. RSF 36th. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Small media market; no compiled tweet-arrest series.

Not in FotN. FiW 2025: 8/100. Al-Shabaab and federal authorities both police speech. 𝕏 is used; safety, not a national DNS block, is the constraint.

Self-declared state, drawn separately on the map. Not in FotN. 𝕏 is reachable. Overlaps Somalia’s connectivity story; no separate Freedom House internet score.

Not in FotN. FiW 2026: 0/100 — Freedom House’s lowest 2026 mark. RSF 118th. Connectivity and security services, not a polished legal-request channel.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. EU DSA plus the gag law / hate-speech docket. No compiled national tweet-arrest FOI in this file.

Not in FotN. RSF 34th. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. RSF 5th. FiW 2026: 99. CIVICUS 81, Open. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. RSF 8th. 𝕏 is open. Strong constitutional speech protections; no compiled tweet-arrest series.

Not in FotN. RSF 28th. 𝕏 is open. High-quality democracy with PRC information-operation pressure. No Freedom House FotN row.

Not in FotN. RSF 155th. FiW 2025: 5/100. CPJ: 9 journalists jailed on 1 Dec 2025. Periodic blocks of independent sites and messengers.

Not in FotN. RSF 117th. #KeepItOn 2025: 8 shutdowns (up from 3 in 2024). 𝕏 is generally reachable between shutdowns.

Not in FotN. RSF 30th. 𝕏 is open. One of Asia’s better press-freedom ranks.

Not in FotN. RSF 97th. 𝕏 is open. Protest-period internet restrictions have been used historically.

Not in FotN. RSF 32nd. 𝕏 is open.

Not in FotN. FiW 2026: 1/100. CIVICUS 4, Closed. Independent internet access is effectively nil. 𝕏 is not a public service.

Not in FotN. RSF 48th. 𝕏 is open. One of Latin America’s more open civic spaces.

Not in FotN. 𝕏 is open. Small Pacific media market.

Disputed territory. Not in FotN. No independent national internet-freedom score. Connectivity and authority follow the controlling power on the ground.

Not in FotN. Fragmented sovereignty (Houthi north, internationally recognized government, southern authorities). Connectivity and factional censorship, not a single national 𝕏 policy.