Digital platforms have come to embody new forms of power over our societies — regulating speech, shaping political participation, and enabling governments to categorise, discriminate against, and monitor individuals and communities. The rise of counter-democratic practices — such as the spread of hate speech and divisive disinformation, the proliferation of spyware, and the growing surveillance of activists, protesters, and human rights defenders — reflects persistent and deepening threats to democracy. These dynamics erode public trust, restrict human rights such as freedom of expression, and foster an environment of fear and manipulation. These threats—along with the misuse of digital tools to influence public participation—are collectively undermining civic participation, weakening democratic controls and institutions, and eroding the foundations of democratic accountability.

Through the Digital Democracy Hub, we aim to accommodate, develop, and coordinate strategic litigation efforts addressing, among others, the following issues:

• • Litigation countering content moderation practices spreading disinformation and hate speech; 
  • Litigation countering content moderation practices manipulating elections or influencing political participation and association; 
  • Freedom of expression cases for censoring by governments and digital platforms
  • Anti-discrimination litigation against the use of discriminatory technological tools by governments and platforms;
  • Litigation countering spyware and government surveillance of protesters, activists, people on the move, journalists, and human rights defenders; 
  • Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) cases against human rights defenders;
  • Children’s rights litigation concerning the use of technological tools by digital platforms and governments that affect young people.