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.
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Riley Chou @rileychou.bsky.social Media and social media consultant @AccessNow|Taipei-based freelance journalist|https://www.linkedin.com/in/riley-cy-chou/
CDT Europe @cdteu.org 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/
Fionnuala NÍ Aoláin KC (Hons) @niaolainf.bsky.social 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.
@arabifactshub.bsky.social @arabifactshub.bsky.social 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 @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law
law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/
Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com International nonprofit protecting human rights online by tackling the spread of online harms. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Media: media@counterhate.com
De|Center @thedecenter.bsky.social 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
eeling chiu @eelingchiu.bsky.social Section Director of Amnesty International Taiwan
APC @apc.org Association for Progressive Communications is a worldwide network supporting the use of internet and ICTs for social justice and sustainable development.
Myanmar Internet Project @myanmarip.bsky.social
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Tirana Hassan @tiranahassan.bsky.social Humanitarian.Human Rights. Purveyor of Good Trouble
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
⬇️ buffer.com/bluesky
Doublethink Lab @doublethinklab.bsky.social A Taipei-based CSO investigating disinformation and information operations in order to safeguard democracy globally. Follow us for our latest reports!
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!
Proton @proton.me 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 @signal.org 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. https://signal.org/donate/
✨🌈 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
HURIDOCS @huridocs.org Human rights defenders need evidence, law and research to advocate justice. We develop tools and strategies to make this information accessible.
🔗 https://huridocs.org/
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
parker higgins @xor.blue computer person, dancing animal
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
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
Micah Lee @micahflee.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
Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com Filecoin Foundation, FFDW: ex-EFF, ex-CPJ, ex-NTK
you're absolutely right!
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social 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!
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
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social 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.
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social 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
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social 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
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social Law and technology academic. Posts about copyright law, internet regulation, AI, llamas, pandas, and cats. 🇨🇷 🇬🇧
https://www.technollama.co.uk/
Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social 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.
Lori Regattieri @followlori.bsky.social Advisor Green Screen Coalition • PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) • Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla • Climate Justice • Political economy of AI • Espírito Santo/Brasília, Brasil https://olink.ai/eco-midia
Attacks on Civilians with Small Drones: A Global Picture @littleflyingrobots.bsky.social Documenting, analyzing, and mapping the growing global problem of attacks on civilians with small drones, from @faineg.bsky.social. View the map of global attacks here: https://map.faineg.com/public/index.html
Bill Marczak @billmarczak.org senior researcher at @citizenlab.ca
Amie Stepanovich @amiest.bsky.social Privacy, tech, security
My opinions are mine.
Andrew McLaughlin @andrewmcl.bsky.social Nerd. @mcandrew from the Other Place.
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social Civil Rights & Free Speech Attorney. Disinformation & AI Expert. Burgeoning Author.
Now: senior counsel @freepress & @bellagio resident working on my first book
Past: free expression @PENamerica, litigation @ACLU
www.norabenavidez.com
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social 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/
mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social Technology and human rights. Associate Director of Technology Threats and Opportunities at @witnessorg.bsky.social | Doctoral Researcher @oii.ox.ac.uk
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
Mariana Valente @mrnvlnt.bsky.social law prof. @unisg.ch, co-diretora @internetlabbr. a internet ainda me comove
Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨
Also: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc 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
Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.
Ana Arriagada @ana-arriagada.bsky.social Assistant Director Latam at the DFRLab
NewmarkJLeaders 2021
No Suma Cero @nosumacero.bsky.social Non-zero-sum games. @NSC
Tech policy. Internet & Digital Rights. AI Governance.
Who gains power when AI is deployed?
Information operations & digital authoritarianism.
Freedom of expression & Data protection.
Social media & Conflict. Networked movements.
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
Vardon Hamdiu | Digital peacebuilding @vardon.bsky.social Executive Director, Sparkable (www.sparkable.cc). Digital Peacebuilding, Healthier Social Media, Prosocial Design, Responsible Tech, Nonprofit Startups, Digital Rights.
#PeaceTech #SocialCohesion #Empathy
linktr.ee/vardon.world
Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social COSPR - children's online safety and privacy research
cospr.net
Building worker power against militarism in tech @techworkerscoalition.org @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.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/
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
Gohary @ircpresident.bsky.social Directing programs at the intersection of tech, human rights & media. @GlobalVoices.org Services Lead and Board Member. Alum: @AnmatMedia, @IFEX, AlMasry AlYoum, Engineering. Find me at https://mohamedelgohary.com
Leanna Garfield @leannagarfield.bsky.social senior manager, social media safety program @glaad.bsky.social ✨ trust & safety researcher 🤳 previously Access Now
Desgrecia @ateneam.bsky.social 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
Eli 💜💚✊🏽 @elicitizen.bsky.social 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
Luis Fernando García @luisfgarcia.bsky.social Fighting digital authoritarianism.
Co-Founder and former Executive Director at @r3d.mx
Luis Carlos Diaz @luiscarlos.bsky.social 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.
Carlos Guerra @cguerra.bsky.social Tech Advisor on digital security and circumvention | Venezuelan
David Aragort @aragort.com 🇻🇪 Bridging Tech, Democracy & Human Rights in Latin America
Rezwan @rezwan.bsky.social Editor @globalvoices.org, Communications @EngageMedia.org | Researcher, Blogger, Translator, Digital Rights advocate | South Asia, Asia-Pacific
Jon Camfield @joncamfield.com Find me at https://mastodon.social/@joncamfield , or my bridged account here: https://bsky.app/profile/joncamfield.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Conexión Segura y Libre @conexionsegura.bsky.social ¡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
Raisa Urribarri @uraisa.bsky.social Journalism, media, ICT, democracy.
Researcher @ https://cieps.org.pa/
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Eva Blum-Dumontet @evabd.bsky.social 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.”
Abir Ghattas @abirghattas.bsky.social CIO & Director of Information Security @HRW • Feminist • @abirghattas@infosec.exchange •
Arzu Geybulla @arzugeybulla.bsky.social Co-Executive Director, Access Now
Journalist
Luis Fernando García @tumbolian.bsky.social Abogado. Derechos Humanos y Tecnología.
Cofundador y exdirector de @r3d.mx | Opiniones a título personal
English account: @luisfgarcia.bsky.social
Thomas Lohninger @socialhack.bsky.social Digital Rights are Human Rights. Net Neutrality. eID. Executive Director epicenter.works, VP EDRi, Fellow @StanfordCIS (he/him)
Pepe F. @padaguan.bsky.social 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.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning: The rise of AI and the radicalization of a tech idealist.
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social 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
Jessica J. González @jgo4justice.bsky.social Co-CEO of @FreePress.bsky.social. Board member @AmericasVoice.bsky.social & Latino Media Collaborative. Los Angeles-based chingona lawyer.
MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
hopeful.technology
Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social Humanitarian tech and stuff @Access Now. Also, random shitpoasting
Natalia Krapiva 🕊️👩🏻💻 @natynettle.bsky.social 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.
Peter Micek @lawyerpants.bsky.social Tinker, lawyer, rocker, talker. New York based. California state of mind. Work at @accessnow teach @Columbia play @ironichipsters
Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social 🟡⚪️🟣⚫️
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.
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:
https://riesgos.club
https://Patreon.com/RiesgosClub
https://paypal.me/RiesgosClub
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
Michael De Dora @mdedora.bsky.social Human rights defender and hockey guy.
https://www.accessnow.org/profile/michaeld/
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
Mohammed Al-Maskati @mohdmaskati.bsky.social Digital Security Helpline Director at Access Now
https://www.accessnow.org/profile/mohammed/