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OTF increases funding for circumvention tools to support 46 million monthly users

April 18, 2024

Open Technology Fund (OTF) is pleased to announce its Multilateral Surge and Sustain Fund will support additional censorship circumvention tools to provide access to the free and open internet to up to 46 million users each month. Long-time partners Psiphon, nthLink, and Lantern will continue to receive support to expand their reach to millions more users in China, Iran, and Russia. Three new providers, including FreeBrowser and RostamVPN, will also receive funding to significantly increase the number of users in authoritarian countries. Combined, they will serve tens of millions of users in the world’s most repressed online environments including Belarus, China, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, Russia, Russian-occupied Ukraine, and Turkmenistan. Read More