\n\u201cIn 2024, we witnessed half of the world\u2019s population eligible to vote against a backdrop of continued conflict and social unrest. Cloudflare worked to help protect critical voices and democratic processes, and ensure creators retained control of their work in an increasingly complex digital landscape,\u201d said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare. \u201cWhether it was helping to secure global elections, or helping content creators limit how AI bots access their content, I am proud of how the Cloudflare team supports needs bigger than all of us\u2014delivering on our commitment to helping build a better, more open, and more secure Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nKey milestones highlighted in Cloudflare\u2019s 2024 Impact Report include:<\/p>\n
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- Onboarding 90+ political campaigns and 60+ local media sites in preparation for 2024 U.S. elections:<\/b> Cloudflare provides free cyber security services to state and local governments\u2019 election websites, as well as political campaigns and other related entities through its partnership with Defending Digital Campaigns. Despite detecting a notable increase in DDoS attacks<\/a> targeting political entities prior to the U.S. elections on November 5, Cloudflare did not observe those attacks causing any significant disruptions.\n<\/li>\n
- Reporting on global elections with Cloudflare Radar: <\/b>More than 70 countries held elections in 2024. Cloudflare monitors Internet traffic, attacks, and potential shutdowns during elections around the world through our free public resource Cloudflare Radar<\/a>, and publishes those results to help civil society partners better understand what happens online throughout the electoral process.\n<\/li>\n
- Empowering content creators to regain control in the age of AI: <\/b>Cloudflare launched new tools<\/a> to help create a transparent exchange between websites that want greater control over their content and the AI model providers that are in need of fresh data sources. Now, website owners can block, audit, and control how AI bots access their websites.\n<\/li>\n
- Expanding access to affordable, powerful, and responsible AI, with GPUs in over 180 cities: <\/b>AI applications built with Workers AI are deployed directly on our edge network, so they are instantly available and nearly infinitely scalable to users all over the world. Workers AI<\/a> helps customers control costs and gain low-latency access to popular AI models thanks to AI-capable GPUs dispersed closer to users around the globe.\n<\/li>\n
- Defending 2,900+ vulnerable Internet properties from an average of 95.8 million daily attacks, at no cost: <\/b>Human rights defenders, journalists, humanitarian organizations, and the voices of political dissent are often vulnerable to cyber attacks. In collaboration with 54 civil society partners, Cloudflare\u2019s Project Galileo\u2014now in its tenth year\u2014protects public interest groups from attacks intended to silence them online.\n<\/li>\n
- Equipping the open source community with free services through Project Alexandria:<\/b> Open source software (OSS) is vital to the continued health of the Internet. Cloudflare introduced Project Alexandria to provide recurring annual credits and an expanded range of free services to help OSS projects not only survive, but thrive.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nOverall, Cloudflare has provided more than $15 million in donated products and services in 2024 through these Impact programs. To learn more, please read the full 2024 Impact Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n
About Cloudflare<\/b><\/p>\n
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- Reporting on global elections with Cloudflare Radar: <\/b>More than 70 countries held elections in 2024. Cloudflare monitors Internet traffic, attacks, and potential shutdowns during elections around the world through our free public resource Cloudflare Radar<\/a>, and publishes those results to help civil society partners better understand what happens online throughout the electoral process.\n<\/li>\n
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