Human Rights Center @hrcberkeley.bsky.social Investigating war crimes, pursuing justice, and preparing tomorrow's advocates.
https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/
Nima Fatemi نیما فاطمی @mrphs.bsky.social Privacy x Security x Social Impact
Abolitionist x Intersectional
Free Palestine 🍉 Free Iran ✌🏽
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Victor Kattan @victorkattan.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Public International Law @UoN | formerly @NUS | member @TGC | editorial board @AsianJIL | International Law, International Criminal Law, Law of Armed Conflict, History of International Law
ORCID: 0000-0001-5109-5933
Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social Humanitarian tech and stuff @Access Now. Also, random shitpoasting
Kassem Mnejja @kassemmnejja.bsky.social Advocating for digital rights across MENA and beyond with Access Now. Nonresident Fellow at @timep.bsky.social, focusing on digital rights and cyberspace in the MENA region.
Aymen @zaghdoudist.bsky.social █║▌│█║▌║││█║▌│║▌║ Zaghdoudist© 2025 freedom of expression fervent defender and assistant professor of media law
Arzu Geybulla @arzugeybulla.bsky.social Co-Executive Director, Access Now
Journalist
Wafa Ben-Hassine @wafa.bsky.social 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.
Chief of Digital Tech and Human Rights Section at UN Human Rights
Geneva-based
Bruna Martins dos Santos @brums.bsky.social 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
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Writer, professor, and artist exploring the internet.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social 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
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Agneris @nerisampi.bsky.social Digital rights defender
Domingo Flores 🏳️🌈 @riesgos.club Digital Security, Privacy and Ethics. He/him, cisgender, autistic advocacy. Activist!
Webpage coming back soon:
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https://Patreon.com/RiesgosClub
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Yamlek Mojica @yamlek.bsky.social Digital Rights are Human Rights | Global Comms & Digital Content at @accessnow.org | Opiniones propias | Exfellow Fundación Gabo, RedLATAM, Corte IDH, ICFJ | Antes en Climate Tracker
Bridget Andere @bridgeta.bsky.social Human Rights Human Being. A little strange.
@isedua.bsky.social @isedua.bsky.social
Donna Wentworth @wentword.bsky.social 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.
@tiernanbambam.bsky.social @tiernanbambam.bsky.social
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social 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
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. NYC, from West Virginia.
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Brian X. Chen @brianx.bsky.social New York Times tech columnist, dog photographer, recovering bagel addict
Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social Senior AI & Government Reporter @bgov.com. Former WaPo, Politico. 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Tips/Signal: Cristiano.01
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social Writes about A.I. for the Washington Post. New Yorker. Bird watcher. Grumpy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/shira-ovide/
Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression @thefireorg.bsky.social We defend and promote free speech for all Americans in our courtrooms, on our campuses, and in our culture.
Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press Protecting, defending public interest journalism in the 21st century.
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Staff, board members and allies in our Starter Packs.
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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/
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
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The Markup @themarkup.org Challenging technology to serve the public good.
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WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams.
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com The future is here.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Tim Engelhardt @tengelhr.bsky.social Mostly on human rights, digital tech. Work at UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR). Posts personal.
Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨
Also: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
Privacy International @privacyinternational.org For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power.
https://privacyinternational.org
Farzaneh Bad @farzdusa.bsky.social DigitalMedusa https://digitalmedusa.org/
Netrifying the enemies of the global Internet
Say no to IP and government overreach!
Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com Critical futurist, writer, technologist, generalist, philosopher of Weird and Deadly Interesting. Also runs @tuhaf.studio
Posts in ENG and TUR
ahmetasabanci.com
tuhafgelecek.com
tuhaf.studio
newslabturkey.org
Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social senior counsel, Brennan Center for Justice. interested in all the ways money in tech helps and hurts. he/him, 🇸🇬 in 🇺🇸
Luis Fernando García @luisfgarcia.bsky.social Fighting digital authoritarianism.
Co-Founder and former Executive Director at @r3d.mx
Marlena Wisniak @marle.bsky.social Lawyer(ish) fighting for human rights & AI accountability @ECNL
Activist by day, Dancer by night. Feminist & Dreamer always 🏳️🌈🇵🇸
Ramsha Jahangir @ramshajahangir.bsky.social Journalist covering tech & power. deputy editor @techpolicypress.bsky.social
ramshajahangir.com
Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa, @HRW.org
Senior Fellow, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
Counsel to Human Rights & Privatization Project, NYU Law
Allie Funk @alfunk.bsky.social Geeking out on human rights, tech, & internet freedom. She/her.
Opinions are all mine, y’all, no one else's.
Yaman Akdeniz @cyber-rights.org Academic, cyber-rights activist, and trouble-maker :) AYM tescilli "kamu gözcüsü"
Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social 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!
Chinmayi Arun @chinmayiarun.bsky.social Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
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/
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social Award-winning investigative/data journalist. Senior editor @MiddleEastEye, former MENA editor @AlJazeera, Global Authentication Project member @Bellingcat, meganotoole.ca
No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social Google & Amazon workers organizing against the companies' Project Nimbus contract w/ Israel & tech militarism at large.
📩 notech4apartheid@protonmail.com
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Susan Muaddi Darraj @susanmd.bsky.social Novelist 📚 BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA (Harper Collins, Jan 2024) 🌟 FARAH ROCKS series (Capstone Books) 🏆American Book Award. Teaches creative writing @ Johns Hopkins Univ. She/her 🇵🇸 www.SusanMDBooks.com
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Jennine @jennineak.bsky.social takes my own 🤠
🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social 🇵🇸 Trans Palestinian Fabulousness🍉
Wanted to be here for the thirst traps instead here fighting against genocide.
Organizer
Author 📚
Be Better Broken out Feb 20
https://linktr.ee/mxyaffa
Andrew Kadi @imak48.bsky.social don't let your principles / politics be formed by who trolls you.
Jadaliyya @jadaliyya.bsky.social Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.
Farah-Silvana Kanaan @farouha.bsky.social
Alexandra Halaby 🇵🇸 @iskandrah.bsky.social I am @iskandrah on X; also here sharing + archiving reliable and vetted news + comms about Palestine + the Middle East💧 #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForShireen
➡️ Please support a Gaza survival campaign: GazaFunds.com
George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social Palestinian Poet | Editor @ Mizna | Teaching @ Amherst | 📖 BIRTHRIGHT (Button Poetry) & 🇵🇸 poetry anthology (Haymarket Books) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/هو
dylan saba @shaabiranks.bsky.social ‘a net whose fibres pass imperceptibly beneath the world’ // lawyer, writer, third worldist // views my own
Ramzi @ramzi48.bsky.social Primarily here for news and commentary on Palestine and decolonization
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
https://buymeacoffee.com/emissaryofnight
Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social International crouton etc.
Steve Salaita @stevesalaita.bsky.social Essays at stevesalaita.com
Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot.bsky.social Director of Advocacy and Campaigns, Medical Aid for Palestinians.
Palestine Action @palaction.bsky.social A direct action network dismantling Britain's participation in the genocide #ShutElbitDown
Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
Abdelrahman Ayyash عبدالرحمن عياش @3yyash.bsky.social Journalist, Translator, and Researcher - Working on Islamic movements, Democracy, and Human Rights in the Middle East. 3yyash@proton[.]me
Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social Public Scholar | Sociologist | Middle East Analyst | UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. I explore fractured modernities of the Arab world & the Mediterranean. I write to reimagine. Alexandria-Berlin-Casablanca. www.amroali.com
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Jeje Mohamed @jejem.bsky.social Holistic safety & security expert, press freedom, media risk advisor, HEFAT, physical, digital & psychological safety, advocate 4 all rights
Masaar @masaar.net We resist for a free and open Internet.
Masaar.net
@elazhary.bsky.social @elazhary.bsky.social Co-founder and lawyer at @Masaar.bsky.social
Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social Egyptian comics artist and writer. Shubeik Lubeik in English (2023) and Arabic (2021). Sleepy and tired.
Mohamed Mandour @mandour.bsky.social Masters of Human Rights @Humphery School, University of Minnesota. MENA Researcher @Committee to Protect Journalists. #Press_Freedom, #Transnational_Repression, and #Tech_policy. Words are mine!
Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social Egyptian/Iraqi Brit. Political analyst and mediation specialist, working across MENA/Horn of Africa. Views here my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
Kareem Shaheen @kshaheen.bsky.social Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
Elliott Colla @abumrouj.bsky.social المخوزق يشتم السلطان
Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
Dr HA Hellyer @drhahellyer.bsky.social ‣ Senior Associate Fellow - Geopolitics, Security @ Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)
‣ Fmr: Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment, Harvard Kennedy School
‣ Specialise in MENA ◘ Europe ◘ SE-Asia- F Free Alaa @freealaa.bsky.social Campaign to free imprisoned democracy activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Timothy E. Kaldas @tekaldas.bsky.social Deputy Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social
Analyst, Student, Professor, and Professional Cynic
Study and teach at @uab.cat in Barcelona
#RefugeesWelcome He/Him
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