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EU law and tech policy, mostly musings on content moderation, platform governance, privacy, AI. Now: Co-Founder & Director @awo.agency. Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Then: EU Parliament. UN. Mozilla. PhD in EU law.
The European Endowment for Democracy (EED) supports citizens striving for democracy in the Eastern Partnership, Middle East, North Africa, Western Balkans, Turkey and beyond.
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We are the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law, working to empower civil society through legal and policy frameworks that protect civic freedoms.
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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.
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Working since 1968 to achieve just, inclusive and life-sustaining societies.
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We fight for digital rights. Join us.
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Advocacy officer at @amnesty.be
Tweets are my own.
Brussels based organisation promoting human rights for the Palestinian people. #CeasefireNow #StopTheGenocide #EndImpunity
Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
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EU preventive diplomacy, mediation & digital peacebuilding | Build Up ˆ | Visiting Professor @collegeofeurope | Feminist | Irish or British or both - always European | live from Lisbon
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Curly hair enthusiast, ☭, mom, abortion aficionado, misplaced Kentuckian, Berliner, Colonel Sanders chronicler, recovering lawyer, contributing writer @therealnews.com Social Media etc for @burnitdownkimbrown.bsky.social
Always Antifascist
Journalist with focus on Arab world, including Palestine for @therightsforum.bsky.social. Previously lived in Cairo, now Netherlands. Author of two books on Egypt ('Nu de wereld niet meer kijkt' en 'Alexandrië').
Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Fighting for workers’ rights, climate justice, feminism, peace & human rights. Another Europe is possible!
Executive Dir of JVP and JVP Action | www.jvp.org and www.jvpaction.org
they/them/he; it's good to be back
thoughts on human rights, content moderation, tech policy, and politics.
Lot of writing on Tech Policy Press, though my articles are all over! https://www.techpolicy.press/author/dia-kayyali/
Journalist interested in #surveillance | Contributor: @wired.com | @ftm.eu | Covers 🇬🇷 for @rsf.org | Researcher: @deakinuniversity.bsky.social | 2026 Fellow @techpolicypress.bsky.social
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Consultant. Former UNESCO director for free expression and media development. Emeritus professor journalism & media studies, Rhodes University, South Africa. https://commspolicy.africa/
Rooted in Justice, Driving Change
We are a worldwide civil society movement to protect people and democracy from harms by Big Tech platforms and technologies.
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Journalists for Human Rights mobilizes media to spread human rights awareness and change lives. Visit www.jhr.ca to learn more
We're the independent digital advertising watchdog. We are building a transparent and fair digital advertising market.
Campaign support for people power movements and groups across the world. Follow to hear about free and paid training and coaching, reading groups for organizing wisdom, and great organizing. https://socialmovementtechnologies.org
Informação confiável sobre desinformação.
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For 20 years, ISD has led the way in detecting, exposing and combatting terrorism, extremism, foreign interference and authoritarianism.
Journalist entrepreneur. Talking media/tech/democracy. Founded Storyful. Co-founded Kinzen. Worked Spotify & Twitter. Ex-foreign correspondent 🇮🇪
We are an incubator for pro-Palestine advocacy projects. Completely free mentorship, volunteer pool, and marketing support to help you scale.
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Directing programs at the intersection of tech, human rights & media. Alum: @AnmatMedia, @IFEX, @GlobalVoices, AlMasry AlYoum, Engineering.
Writer, editor, researcher. Monitoring cybercrimes and free expression in MENA.
Association for Progressive Communications is a worldwide network supporting the use of internet and ICTs for social justice and sustainable development.
TIMEP is dedicated to centering localized perspectives in the policy discourse on the Middle East and North Africa. (Twitter: @TIMEPDC)
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Executive Director http://witness.org : video + tech + human rights; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes https://gen-ai.witness.org, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster.
Head of the Algorithmic Accountability Lab at Amnesty Tech | Works on Tech, Justice, and Rights| Views, mine
Writer from Texas
Managing editor @inkstickmedia.com
Books: You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave (2025), The Marauders (2022) & Alerta! Alerta! (2018)
Short fiction collection forthcoming: A History of Heartache
Human. Global. Security.
Nonprofit news about our life with endless war.
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We build coalitions for Big Tech accountability, protecting democracy and human rights from digital threats.
digitalaction.co
Founder of Chayn - fight gender-based violence with tech. Feminist technologist. Living trauma-informed design. Forbes & MIT U35. EYL40. Ashoka Fellow.🇵🇰🇬🇧
Open, transparent AI for real world impact. Built for developers, creators, and teams shaping what’s next.
AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
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Ex-academic working on digital citizenship, digital rights, digital authoritarianism, digital disinformation, civic tech, digital surveillance and all that jazz. Free typo with every post.
A global movement connecting over 70M citizens worldwide, bringing people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere.
Free thinking for the world 🌍 We're an independent media organisation. Find us > opendemocracy.net Also at @openDemocracy@newsie.social for those who toot too.
Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Technology + democracy.
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MENA Tax Justice, Feminist Economics, and Climate Justice | Inclusive Economies manager at @timep.bsky.social
With partners and allies worldwide, we seek to put human rights at the heart of business to deliver a just economy, climate justice, and end abuse.
Research and development at the intersection of cyberspace, global security, and human rights. Based at Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto.
Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
The Investor Alliance for Human Rights is a collective action platform for responsible investment that is grounded in respect for people’s fundamental rights.
A multistakeholder collaboration working to protect & advance freedom of expression and privacy in the tech sector.
The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
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The Tech Transparency Project is a research initiative of Campaign for Accountability that investigates the power, influence, & impact of Big Tech. https://www.techtransparencyproject.org
Open Media and Information Companies Initiative (Open MIC) works to hold companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google & Meta accountable via shareholder engagement.
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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.
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Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams.
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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.
President, Foundation for Middle East Peace | www.fmep.org
Defence Editor at The Economist.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research.
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The international think tank making respect for human rights part of everyday business. Get our latest #bizhumanrights commentaries, reports and podcasts ➡️ IHRB.org
We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
"You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant... oh, !@#$ it." -- M. Gustave
Advancing Human Rights in Investment
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Journalist / security adviser
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- Global news safety manager / deputy global editor-in-chief. Formerly #Lebanon, #Iraq, #Kenya, #Egypt - Interests #Syria #captagon #OSINT
ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Technology and Innovation Editor at The Business Post in Dublin
Research Professor at PRIO.
Mostly Palestine, Israel, US related stuff.
Mostly in English, sometimes in Norwegian.
We expose Big Tech's harms to democracy.
Parents to The Real Facebook Oversight Board & Independent Sage.
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Head of policy & campaigns at Global Action Plan. Working on big tech’s climate harms.
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
Global Action Plan mobilises people and organisations to take action on the systems that harm us and our planet. We are an environmental charity, working towards a green and thriving planet where everyone can enjoy happy and healthy lives. UK and beyond.
Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
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European Center for Digital Rights ⚖️
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#MakePrivacyReality #InvestInPrivacy
We fight for human rights in the digital age.
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Doctoral Researcher, Loughborough University
Previously journalist. Bylines in The Citizens, The Observer, Byline Times, VICE World News, Tech Policy Press, The Lead, New Internationalist.
London-based journalist. Correspondent @Italian newspaper Il Fatto quotidiano. Politics, Current affairs, Tech-(justice/politics/harm) https://the-citizens.com.
Platforms were always a front-page issue for me.
VP, Foreign Press Association in London.
Denn Menschenrecht gilt auch digital. Wir engagieren uns für Betroffene von Online-Hass und die Demokratie im Netz. Unterstütze hier: https://hateaid.org/spenden
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
Algorithm, we’re onto you. Let’s build a better digital world.
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Fearless reporting/analysis on Palestine—what the mainstream won’t show.
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Technologist for the humans and misanthrope for the machines. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.
NOTE: My skeets are ephemeral and self destruct after a while.
data justice, tech policy, cities & nighttime governance | asst prof of data science & public policy / writer | they•them 🏳️⚧️ | 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸
Big Tech campaigner and researcher at @corporateeurope.org. Fighting corporate power ✊
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) challenges the influence of Big Business and corporate lobby groups in EU policy-making.
🐘 @corporateeurope@mstdn.social
🔗 https://corporateeurope.org/en
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A journalist. Interested in tech-politics, social movements and culture. Kashmiri.
Journalist based in Dubai/Riyadh covering Saudi Arabia and the wider region.
Currently with AGBI. Past bylines in The Times, The Guardian, The Economist and elsewhere.
www.edmundbower.com
