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Press freedom is your freedom 🗞️ The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes #pressfreedom worldwide. ➡️ Website: cpj.org ➡️ Subscribe to email lists: cpj.org/subscribe ➡️ Show your support: cpj.org/donate

Media and social media consultant @AccessNow｜Taipei-based freelance journalist｜https://www.linkedin.com/in/riley-cy-chou/

Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe 🇪🇺 Advancing EU law and tech policy with a focus on democracy and human rights. Part of @cdt.org's Global team. https://cdt.org/eu/

Regents Law Professor, Minnesota Law + Professor QUB Law School (Belfast)+ Director MN HRC. ICJ. RIA. FBA. Former UN SR Counter-Terrorism & Human Rights (2017-23). Member of the UN Commission of Inquiry (Syria); Irish, Gaeilgeoir, Mom, Loves Yoga & Hiking.

مجتمع التحقق العربي هو مشروع بحثي مختص باستخدام البرمجيات المختلفة لدعم منصات التحقق الإخباري 🔍 Empowering fact-checking platforms with advanced tools and research

Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/

International nonprofit protecting human rights online by tackling the spread of online harms. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Media: media@counterhate.com

New home of #DesignFromTheMargins methodology. We transform tech & advocate for #TechAccountability to advance justice & human rights. New to socials, not the work. Website: www.de-center.net Newsletter: https://the-decenter.ghost.io

Section Director of Amnesty International Taiwan

Association for Progressive Communications is a worldwide network supporting the use of internet and ICTs for social justice and sustainable development.

Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow

Humanitarian.Human Rights. Purveyor of Good Trouble

🔎 🌎 ✊ Exposing human rights abuses around the world.

Create and share social media content anywhere, consistently. Built with 💙 by a global, remote team. ⬇️ Learn more about Buffer & Bluesky https://buffer.com/bluesky

A Taipei-based CSO investigating disinformation and information operations in order to safeguard democracy globally. Follow us for our latest reports!

Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏. Author of graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION out now!

Choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Start protecting your personal information online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, Proton Wallet, and Lumo: https://proton.me/

Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time.

TCU is a community network gathering #DigitalRights defenders working on tech and security issues impacting human rights, journalism, civil society & social justice. Check out our job board, events and knowledge center. https://www.digitalrights.community

Human rights defenders need evidence, law and research to advocate justice. We develop tools and strategies to make this information accessible. 🔗 https://huridocs.org/

i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.

President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute

civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. minors DNI

computer person, dancing animal

It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all

Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow Writer, professor. Comedian. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com

Doing what I can to keep activists, journalists, and researchers safe and productive — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01

Filecoin Foundation, FFDW: ex-EFF, ex-CPJ, ex-NTK you're absolutely right!

nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own

californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair. edu coalition (dm for details) go bears!

Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382

Human rights centered design, art, and policy https://www.convocation.design/ Executive Director @cordlabs

Writer, lawyer, and artist exploring the internet. Privacy @ACLU.org, Board @MuckRock.com, Teaching @Pratt.edu. rebeccawilliams.info, rebecca.411 on Signal

UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.

Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021). Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about Views are mine alone.

Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her

Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them

STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Professor of Communication, Cornell https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io

Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/

Law and technology academic. Posts about copyright law, internet regulation, AI, llamas, pandas, and cats. 🇨🇷 🇬🇧 https://www.technollama.co.uk/

Full time: Momlife + working on tech, rights, societal impacts, democracy, foreign affairs. Major enthusiast of biking, bourboning, pie making, home renos, kitchen design, and travel.

Advisor Green Screen Coalition • PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) • Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla • Climate Justice • Political econony of AI, energy and digital critical infrastructures • Espírito Santo / Brasília, Brasil https://olink.ai/eco-midia

Documenting, analyzing, and describing the growing global problem of attacks on civilians with small drones, from @faineg.bsky.social

senior researcher at @citizenlab.ca

Privacy, tech, security My opinions are mine.

Nerd. @mcandrew from the Other Place.

Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her

free speech, digital justice, civil rights | now: senior counsel @freepress | past: US free expression @PENamerica, litigation @ACLU. www.norabenavidez.com

Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/

Tech and human rights at WITNESS, previously ARTICLE19 DPhil Candidate Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Views all my own!

Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑

law prof. @unisg.ch, co-diretora @internetlabbr. a internet ainda me comove

Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨ Also: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social frederikekaltheuner.com

Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc

Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.

Assistant Director Latam at the DFRLab NewmarkJLeaders 2021

Non-zero-sum games. @NSC Information operations & digital authoritarianism. Freedom of expression & Data protection. Digital rights & Tech policy. Social media & Conflict. Networked movements. Civil resistance. Latin America. Democracy+Tech Initiative. AC.

Personal opinions only! All things tech And Human Rights ✨Policy and Advocacy @WITNESS German Chancellor Fellow @AvHStiftung 2021-2022 | Previously @DigitalActionCo, @WZB, @DataPrivacyBr, @direitosnarede| She/Her

Co-Lead, Sparkable (www.sparkable.cc). Digital Peacebuilding, Healthier Social Media, Prosocial Design, Responsible Tech, Nonprofit Startups, Digital Rights. #PeaceTech #SocialCohesion #Empathy linktr.ee/vardon.world

COSPR - children's online safety and privacy research cospr.net Building worker power against militarism in tech @techworkerscoalition.org @notechforapartheid.bsky.social

scholar of risk & refusal | independent advisor on digital rights, tech & climate justice | postdoc on AIDEMOCRACY at Goldsmiths, University of London | ex research lead at Engine Room | https://beckykazansky.net/about/

By becoming overly engrossed in the networks on our screens, we lose sight of the networks within us and within the living beings that surround us. Director @ Omidyar Network

Directing programs at the intersection of tech, human rights & media. Alum: @AnmatMedia, @IFEX, @GlobalVoices, AlMasry AlYoum, Engineering.

senior manager, social media safety program @glaad.bsky.social ✨ trust & safety researcher 🤳 previously Access Now

Tengo una casa llena de gatitos. Manitas torpes que le hacen a las magias del litigio y defensa de ddhh en el entorno digital. Desvelandome en @StanfordLaw

Glocal. Into #Media #SocialMovements #HumanRights and #ClimateJustice Views all mine, etc. Don't call my boss. My ❤️ is in 🇲🇽 🇨🇱 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Also lurking in Mastodon @elicitizen@federate.social

Fighting digital authoritarianism. Co-Founder and former Executive Director at @r3d.mx

Periodista y ciberactivista en Venezuela. Tejo redes. Doy clases. Investigo. Amo la cultura pop, los derechos humanos, la política y las tecnologías. Todo es un remix. Si algo conecta gente, me interesa.

Tech Advisor on digital security and circumvention | Venezuelan

🇻🇪 Bridging Tech, Democracy & Human Rights in Latin America

Editor @globalvoices.org, Communications @EngageMedia.org | Researcher, Blogger, Translator, Digital Rights advocate | South Asia, Asia-Pacific

Find me at https://mastodon.social/@joncamfield , or my bridged account here: https://bsky.app/profile/joncamfield.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

¡Internet seguro y sin censura para todos! Conexión Segura y Libre es una ONG que defiende los DDHH y la seguridad de usuarios en internet | @vesinfiltro.bsky.social @notisinfiltro.bsky.social

Journalism, media, ICT, democracy. Researcher @ https://cieps.org.pa/

writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @followthecrypto.org • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian support my work: citationneeded.news/signup links: mollywhite.net/linktree 💗💜💙

Head of Movement Building and Policy at Chayn. Tech and gender policy. Privacy enthusiast. “Marxist, agitator, anarchist, looter and person who in many instances has no idea what she is doing.”

CIO & Director of Information Security @HRW • Feminist • @abirghattas@infosec.exchange •

Abogado. Derechos Humanos y Tecnología. Cofundador y exdirector de @r3d.mx | Opiniones a título personal English account: @luisfgarcia.bsky.social

Digital Rights are Human Rights. Net Neutrality. eID. Executive Director epicenter.works, VP EDRi, Fellow @StanfordCIS (he/him)

Nerd. Activista por los derechos digitales. Privacidad, vigilancia, libertad de expresión, copyleft. Presidente en Wikimedia México. Director de Comunicación en @R3D.mx. Escritor esporádico, lector intermitente.

Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria

I an award winning Dalit futurist and speculative fiction author. I am an inaugural member of the Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop for my upcoming book WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE. I am also the author of the TRAUMA OF CASTE. Find me at www.dalitdiva.com

Co-CEO of @FreePress.bsky.social. Board member @AmericasVoice.bsky.social & Latino Media Collaborative. Los Angeles-based chingona lawyer.

Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London hopeful.technology

Humanitarian tech and stuff. Also, random shitpoasting

Lawyer working on human rights, technology, spyware, litigation, Russia and Eastern Europe. Currently Senior Tech-Legal Counsel at Access Now. Formerly OSINT investigator and prosecutor.

Tinker, lawyer, rocker, talker. New York based. California state of mind. Work at @accessnow teach @Columbia play @ironichipsters

🟡⚪️🟣⚫️ Posts en/in Spanglish: Tecnólogue, trabajadore social. Creo en la justicia transformativa, el apoyo mutuo y la organización comunitaria. Technologist, social worker. I believe in transformative justice, mutual aid, and community organizing.

Digital rights defender

Digital Security, Privacy and Ethics. He/him, cisgender, autistic advocacy. Activist! Webpage coming back soon: https://riesgos.club https://Patreon.com/RiesgosClub https://paypal.me/RiesgosClub

Digital Rights are Human Rights | LAC Comms & Engagement at @accessnow.org | Opiniones propias | Exfellow Fundación Gabo, RedLATAM, Corte IDH | Antes en Climate Tracker

Human Rights Human Being. A little strange.

Human rights defender and hockey guy. https://www.accessnow.org/profile/michaeld/

Human rights for everyone, everywhere. I work at accessnow.org, but these posts are my own and do not represent the views of my employer.

Digital Security Helpline Director at Access Now https://www.accessnow.org/profile/mohammed/