Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
eeva @eeva.bsky.social Writer, politico, tech do gooder.
Vladimir Cortés Roshdestvensky @vladcortes.bsky.social Digital Rights are Human Rights / Freedom of Expression / Photography / Policy and Research / AI
The Right Podcast @therightpodcast.bsky.social I research and explain far-right politics, authoritarian movements, and ideological convergence. My work connects history, theory, and current events through long-form analysis. Site: therightpodcast.org Email: therightpodcast@proton.me
Tim Engelhardt @tengelhr.bsky.social Mostly on human rights, digital tech. Work at UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR). Posts personal.
Digital Action @digitalaction.bsky.social We build coalitions for Big Tech accountability, protecting democracy and human rights from digital threats. Subscribe to our newsletter!
digitalaction.co
Research Tree | Social Media Listening | Narrative Intelligence @researchtree.bsky.social Research Tree provides narrative intelligence insights across social media, online news, and commentary. Website: https://research-tree.net
SOCIALTIC @socialtic.bsky.social Tecnología para el cambio social - LATAM
www.socialtic.org
www.protege.la
www.infoactivismo.org
www.escueldadedatos.online
Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social Emeritus Fellow of Digital Rights. Editor of book series on all aspects of digital citizenship and digital authoritarianism. Free typo with every post.
✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social 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
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Derechos Digitales @derechosdigitales.org ⚖️ Defendemos los derechos humanos en el entorno digital
🌎 América Latina
🤖 IA, privacidad, seguridad, acceso, internet ¡y más!
Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo @abraji.bsky.social
The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com A podcast by Lebanese writer and researcher @ayoub.bsky.social. “A place where we tell our hardest truths, and find one another" - Naomi Klein
Art by therosaartist.com
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Matt Gravlin @mattgravlin.bsky.social PhD candidate Indigenous Studies University of Saskatchewan (he/him). Anthropocene, political ontology, race, Indigenous data sovereignty.
VE sin Filtro @vesinfiltro.bsky.social Ayudándote a evadir bloqueos y censura. Reportando restricciones de #InternetVE desde 2014. Un programa de @conexionsegura.bsky.social
vesinfiltro.org
AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
PEN Canada @pencanada.bsky.social We defend free expression, aid writers in peril, and celebrate literature.
pencanada.ca
Pilar Sáenz @mapisaro.bsky.social Física, activista, nerd. Coordino proyectos en Fundación Karisma sobre tecnología y DDHH de día y en la noche tomo fotos y leo ciencia ficción.
ARTICLE 19 México y Centroamérica @article19mxca.bsky.social Organización internacional de derechos humanos por la defensa de la libertad de expresión y el derecho a la información.
articulo19.org
Coline Schupfer Galia (she/her/siya) @colinecoline.bsky.social i work on power + tech + justice | human rights lawyer @ collaborative research center for resilience | co-editor ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @ haymarketbooks
Mark Scott @markscott.bsky.social Senior Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative. Weekly newsletter: www.digitalpolitics.co
Nadia Hardman @nadiahardman.bsky.social Refugee and Migrant Rights Senior Advisor at Human Rights Watch. Here for the calm.
@bulljonas.bsky.social @bulljonas.bsky.social Former Assistant Researcher, Disability Rights Division, Human Rights Watch.
Bill Frelick @billfrelick.bsky.social Director, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
Paul Aufiero @aufierp.bsky.social Senior Web Producer @ Human Rights Watch
Måns Molander @manmader.bsky.social Nordic Director, Human Rights Watch
Philippe Dam @philippedam.bsky.social HRW's EU Advocacy Director, in #Brussels.
Robin Taylor @taylorrobin.bsky.social Open Source Researcher @ HRW. Crisis, Conflict, and Arms.
Eva Cossé @evacosse.bsky.social Europe senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. Focusing on #Greece and #France.
Alice Autin @aliceautin.bsky.social International Justice and Communications officer, @hrw in Brussels
Les Lim @lesmana.bsky.social I’m just here to awooooooo at exactly 1pm on select Wednesdays
Claudio Francavilla @claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social Associate EU Director at @hrw.org
Posts about #EU foreign policy on #HumanRights, mainly #MiddleEast, #Asia, #EUtrade, #UN #HRC
Slowly transitioning here from an irredeemably ruined Twitter. Usual caveats
Ben Ward @bpward.bsky.social I work on Europe for Human Rights Watch (he/him)
https://www.hrw.org/about/people/benjamin-ward
Human Rights Watch auf Deutsch @hrwdeutschland.bsky.social Wir informieren hier aus dem Berliner Büro von Human Rights Watch über Menschenrechte weltweit.
https://www.hrw.org/de
Carlos Conde @carlosconde.bsky.social Independent journalist/researcher in the Philippines focusing mainly on human rights. 🇵🇭. Ex-HRW, ex-NYT. | carlosconde.substack.com
Luciana Téllez Chávez @lucianatellez.bsky.social Senior Researcher on Environment & Human Rights, forestry lead at @hrw.org / Working with front line defenders to protect their forests and uphold their rights. https://www.hrw.org/about/people/luciana-tellez-chavez
Heather Barr @heatherbarr.bsky.social Women's rights associate director, Human Rights Watch. Alaskan in Cape Town. Queen of typos.
Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social Work: @hrw.org on human rights in Europe
Non-work: Migrant. Parent. Pedant. Anorak. #dadjokes. He/him.
Barcelona-based.
Work output here: https://www.hrw.org/about/people/kartik-raj- S Stephen Northfield @snorthfield.bsky.social Deputy Chief Communications Officer at Human Rights Watch, recovering journalist
Mei Fong @meifong.bsky.social CCO @hrw, Pulitzer winning journo, author ‘One Child’ Ambie, duPont. Interested in all things storytelling
Lisa Maier @lisamaier.bsky.social • Comms for @hrw.org
• Everything human rights
• available in EN/ES/DE
• Got a soft spot for soft tacos
• feminista siempre- Z @zambezimasala.bsky.social @zambezimasala.bsky.social
Naseem Tarawnah @tarawnah.bsky.social Writer, editor, researcher. Monitoring cybercrimes and free expression in MENA.
Arzu Geybulla @arzugeybulla.bsky.social Co-Executive Director, Access Now
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales @r3d.mx Somos una organización mexicana dedicada a la defensa de los derechos humanos en el entorno digital. ✉️: contacto@r3d.mx
Silvia Chocarro @silviachocarro.bsky.social #FreedomOfExpression #MediaFreedom #JournoSafe #HRDsProtection #InfoIntegrity. Now, Head of Civic Space at UN Human Rights office - Sudan.
Previously, ARTICLE 19, IFEX, UNESCO, MFC-CN cochair & RFI. Univ Sheffield’s CFOM member. #PhD in Journalism
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social Inventor of WWW
Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org
Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org
Founder w3.org
My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.
https://knightcolumbia.org/
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
News Literacy Project @newslit.org We advance the development and teaching of news literacy in K-12 education. #NewsLiteracy https://newslit.org/
Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social Worked over 2 decades with Human Rights Watch & International Crisis Group. Subscribe to my free newsletter, "International Affairs for Normal People": https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/
Other links: https://linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein
Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social Monitoring the press, tracking the evolving media business & encouraging excellence in journalism since 1961.
Knight Foundation @knightfoundation.org
EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press Protecting, defending public interest journalism in the 21st century.
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Exploring the future of journalism
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
ICIJ @icij.org Stories that rock the world. We expose wrongdoing so the world can make it right. Find us at ICIJ.org. #UberFiles #EricssonList #PandoraPapers #FinCENFiles #PanamaPapers
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social CEO Open Knowledge Foundation - Lawyer - Internationalist
Corinne Podger @corinnepodger.bsky.social 🙋🏻♀️ Currently building the University of Wollongong Academy.
📌Come find me on LinkedIn!
Melissa Fleming @melissafleming.un.org I lead communications at the United Nations. I promote peace, human rights & a healthy planet and advocate for humane information ecosystems.
Author: A Hope More Powerful than the Sea.
Podcast host: Awake at Night.
Global Voices @globalvoices.org The first global community-based newsroom. We build bridges and global understanding. Read our stories here: https://globalvoices.org
European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) @europeanjournalists.org - The largest organisation of #journalists in #Europe
- Fighting for #PressFreedom and decent working conditions
- Representing 295,000 journalists across 44 countries
- Affiliated to the European Trade Union Confederation
www.europeanjournalists.org
Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social The Tow Center hosts a variety of research projects that explore the intersection of journalism and technology
Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social We are a global movement that wants to end the injustice of corruption worldwide 💙 Imprint: http://anticorru.pt/im
Web: https://www.transparency.org/
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org The Reporters Committee provides free legal help to journalists and protects their First Amendment rights. (RCFP for short.) Find us at rcfp.org.
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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
European Centre for Press and Media Freedom @ecpmf.bsky.social Our mission is to ensure that the truth is always told.
ecpmf.eu
Leading partner @mediafreedomeu.bsky.social
Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org A publication of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Reports covers thought leadership in journalism—winner of the Bart Richards Media Criticism Award and Mirror Awards.
https://niemanreports.org/
The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social The NUJ is the voice for journalists and journalism - an active, campaigning membership organisation promoting media ethics.
https://www.nuj.org.uk/join
Oversight Board @oversightboard.bsky.social Ensuring respect for free expression and human rights on Facebook and Instagram through binding decisions on content and policy recommendations.
www.oversightboard.com
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy @shorensteinctr.bsky.social We’re a research center at Harvard Kennedy School dedicated to studying the crisis in our information ecosystem and its impacts on society.
Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social Press freedom is your freedom 🗞️
The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes #pressfreedom worldwide.
➡️ Website: cpj.org
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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard @niemanfoundation.bsky.social Promoting and elevating the standards of journalism since 1938. Home of the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard, Nieman Lab, Nieman Reports, and Nieman Storyboard.
https://nieman.harvard.edu/
Freedom House @freedomhouse.bsky.social A prodemocracy organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world.
International Center for Journalists @icfjorg.bsky.social The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is a nonprofit that supports a global network of journalists. #ItTakesAJournalist
Transparency International EU @transparency-eu.bsky.social Fighting corruption in Brussels and beyond. The EU office of @anticorruption.bsky.social.
https://transparency.eu/
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Arena for Journalism in Europe @journalismarena.eu Arena is a non-profit promoting cross-border collaborative journalism.
We organise Dataharvest - the European Investigative Journalism Conference, the Climate Arena Conference, and develop cross-border networks.
journalismarena.eu
Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social Policy wonk at Index on Censorship and co-chair of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition. Works on FoEx, Anti-SLAPP and digital rights. Loves Joan Didion, Dinosaurs 🦕 & My Bloody Valentine. Lives in Glasgow. He/Him @indexoncensorship.org
International Journalism Festival @journalismfestival.com International Journalism Festival #ijf26 | 20th edition | 15-18 April
journalismfestival.com
ARTICLE 19 Law and Policy @article19law.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and information through legal & policy reforms. Everywhere
Council of Europe Media Freedom @coemediafreedom.bsky.social Council of Europe's Platform for the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists and other CoE work on media freedom #EuropeForFreeMedia #pressfreedom https://fom.coe.int/
Nighat Dad @nighatdad.bsky.social
Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social AI governance. Tech. Media. Political economy. Human rights. Director, Center for Journalism & Liberty cjl4news.bsky.social at Open Markets. Fellow at Brookings, CIGI, CDT, MRC. Former CPJ, UNESCO, NYT
Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social Human rights lawyer.
RSF @rsf.org Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
We fight for #PressFreedom all over the world.
Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social Publisher and Co-Founder OCCRP. Creating a global space where reporters can cover corruption and organized crime.
Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org A voice for the persecuted.
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/
Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com Journalist interested in #surveillance | Contributor: @wired.com | @ftm.eu | Covers 🇬🇷 for @rsf.org | Researcher: @deakinuniversity.bsky.social | 2026 Fellow @techpolicypress.bsky.social
☏ Signal: vas.99
http://vaspanagiotopoulos.com
Cartoonists Rights @cartoonistsrights.org We’re a #humanrights non-profit, defending #cartoonists freedom of expression internationally.
https://cartoonistsrights.org/under-pressure-report