NEW: Leaked documents provide a wealth of new details on Russian destabilization and influence campaigns against European countries — including last year’s Islamophobic “pig head” attack against French mosques. buff.ly/yZPrHbl

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Ulm 5 trial: Daniel Tatlow-Devally's statement to Court.

Peter Thiel being given a slot at Wiener Festwochen

kind of grotesque that an Israeli cabinet minister pushing an activist’s head down seems to provoke more outrage than the literal obliteration of an entire territory. But ok you do you

When reading the oh so shocked posts from Israeli officials about this video, remember that 1. Ben Gvir remains in the government and 2. The treatment of the activists in this video is entirely consistent with testimony from previous flotillas. They’re just annoyed that this time it’s public.

If this video, gleefully shared by Ben Gvir, is how Western pro-Palestine activists are treated in public, imagine how Palestinians are treated in private

Extremely distressing video on Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir's X account, showing Irish activist Catriona Graham being assaulted & dragged away, & the treatment of those who were on the sumud flotilla. I know Catriona since we were teenagers. New Irish gov statement here: x.com/itamarbengvi...

One way to support Shining a Light, if you’re not able to buy a copy, is to ask your local library to order it. You can tell them it’s the only practical Irish guide to Freedom of Information, AIE, and other information access tools. Order details here: www.kenfoxe.com #ireland #journalism

I was at the Song Protest #nostageforgenocide in Vienna yesterday. I spoke about States' failure in their duties and why institutions like ESC become complicit through inaction Speech in DE

I spoke to public radio's The World about Eurovision boycotts and why Israel uses Eurovision for propaganda. theworld.org/segments/202...

Boycotts, protests and rule changes rock Eurovision's 70th anniversary. How this year's contest became the most political ever. My report up shortly on @theworld.org f/t @eurotrippodcast.com @roryflynn.ie Tune in: theworld.org #eurovision

There is definitely one part of the AI hype that we all *should* be very scared of and that's the ability of LLMs to generate tons of plausibly-genuine content on social media.

NEW: Suspected Russian government hackers targeted @donncha.is, who investigates spyware attacks daily. Donncha immediately recognized he was being targeted, and he turned the tables on the hackers, exposing a massive spying campaign against Signal users. "The chance ... was too good to pass up."

Gardaí press charges against a man for a poster on the gates of Iranian embassy. Morteza Najafi wedged the anti-Khamenei poster by the railings during a peaceful protest in Blackrock, late last month. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/gardai-press...

Mehrere Länder boykottieren den ESC in Wien wegen der Teilnahme Israels und fast die Hälfte der Menschen in Österreich hat Verständnis dafür. Doch öffentlich wird Kritik als Skurrilität abgetan – ein Armutszeugnis fürs politisch-mediale Establishment.

I spent a lot of time reading US government records documenting the torture of prisoners in US military prisons and CIA black sites, so I'm relatively inured to this kind of thing, but the accounts in this @nickkristof.bsky.social story are truly sickening. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Btw, props to the NUJ branch in RTÉ, their pressure is the only reason RTÉ finally pulled out. Over 260 dead journalists and the EBU not only can't name the government that killed them, it gives that government a giant propaganda opportunity to claim fake public support across Europe for it.

(📷️ Der Standard)

The EBU's first Eurovision media briefing is scheduled right now, just as a thunder and lightning storm rolls in over Vienna. I'm sure it's nothing...

Germany: Ulm 5 trial

Im Dezember 2024 ordnete die Berliner Innenverwaltung an, 4 Studierende für die Teilnahme an der Besetzung der FU Berlin im Kontext von Palästina-Protesten auszuweisen. Eine Beamtin verweigerte die Umsetzung. Jetzt hat das Verwaltungsgericht eine Ausweisung gestoppt. www.rbb24.de/politik/beit...

The contestants for #Eurovision2026 are about to walk the #TurquoiseCarpet in Vienna. But for me and many other fans, the controversy now surrounding the contest is making us sit this year out. Here's why.

💥Hungary's newly elected PM Péter Magyar, in his first speech, apologizes to victims of the Orbán government's smear campaigns and harassment, including NGOs and journalists. For 16 years, dozens if not hundreds of us had to endure our newsrooms being taken over, surveillance and pressure campaigns.

How do commercial phone unlocking tools like Cellebrite actually work? In this technical overview, we explore the attack surfaces exposed by modern mobile devices, how those tools exploit them, and what can be done to better defend our privacy rights. osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2026/05...

Out now – my new book, Shining a Light: Information Access in Ireland. A practical, no-nonsense guide to getting records from public bodies in Ireland using FOI and other information access tools, based on 20+ years of using them. Available here: www.kenfoxe.com #FOI #Journalism #Ireland

📡 Israeli broadcaster Kan has been issued a formal warning by the EBU over Eurovision promotional videos with instructions to vote for Israel ten times. "Employing a direct call to action to vote 10 times [...] is not in line with our rules nor the spirit of the competition."

"How can one be sure that donations collected for 'nurseries' or 'hospitals' in Gaza weren’t actually intended for those purposes - and then ended up somewhere else after all?" Appalling dehumanisation. Shame on you @profil.at

In January, a phishing message arrived on my Signal account, supposedly from "Signal Support." I was able to turned the tables on the attackers and get a unique view of the wide-scale campaign by the attacker's targeting journalists and politicians I was target #13,730 in their database.

Last-minute postponement of RightsCon appears a brazen act of Chinese transnational repression which must be resisted https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/05/zambia-rightscon/

New: Access Now says its RightsCon conference in Zambia was cancelled following pressure from Beijing. Our story: www.reuters.com/world/china/... Access Now statement: www.rightscon.org/rc26-statement

"Every cause I dislike is actually foreign interference" would be laughable if it weren't so obviously laying the groundwork for more democratic backsliding

Such a gutting day. I feel for the staff of @accessnow.org, all their partners and staff in Africa who have been pushing for a RightsCon to be held on the continent, and for human rights broadly. We're ready to support and show up whenever we get the chance next: www.404media.co/rightscon-hu...

"[..] Zambian government officials announced they would postpone the conference in order to “ensure full alignment with Zambia’s national values, policy priorities, and broader public interest considerations."

‘Extraordinarily far-reaching’ Palestine Action trial gets underway in Germany – my latest @972mag.com www.972mag.com/palestine-ac...

The "Ulm 5" held behind thick glass walls here in Stammheim - without acoustic contact with their lawyers - is a setup the defense immediately challenged as unlawful

Tune into RTÉ and there it is, my personal hell - a panel with 3 politicians and a solicitor from William Fry (the lobbyist legal firm of Big Tech) discussing AI

Forty years on, children are still paying the price of Chernobyl

NEW @citizenlab.ca report We uncover two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns. The findings expose how surveillance vendors exploit the global telecom ecosystem to conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years. citizenlab.ca/research/unc...

Adding a note here that the Irish Government acted *very* quickly to restrict access by civil society and journalists to beneficial ownership info after the CJEU judgement, but is now dragging its feet on re-enabling this legitimate interest access as provided for by AMLD6

Das Spiel „Wer ist Bilal?” (mitgestalten vom Land NRW und NRW Verfassungsschutz) soll islamistische Radikalisierung erklären und verwendet Srebrenica als narrativen Baustein dafür. Ein Problem, das dringend diskutiert werden muss! 🧵

Last week, we at @citizenlab.ca and @vsquare.bsky.social exposed Hungarian intelligence’s use of Webloc, an ad-based surveillance system that relies on mobile app data. Update: The Hungarian GDPR regulator told @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social it has launched an ex officio investigation into the matter.

Ireland: Stop unlawful ICE removal flights through Shannon Airport www.amnesty.ie/stop_unlawfu...

Last week, we published a @citizenlab.ca report on the ad-based location surveillance system Webloc, its capabilities and its customers. Webloc obtains data from consumer apps installed on phones. How? We don't know. But the ad targeting segments shown in this 2021 Webloc screenshot caught my eye:

A high-profile Lebanese journalist was targeted with advanced phone hacking in May 2025. The investigation identifies the involvement of BITTER, a known threat actor prominent in South Asia whose operations may now extend into West Asia and North Africa. Full findings: smex.org/smex-may2025/

Today we are publishing our analysis of the latest version of Spyrtacus, a spyware agent from SIO/ASIGINT, produced by the same company that was exposed distributing fake WhatsApp client by Meta Read our analysis: osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2026/04...

Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’

I'm losing track of which one this is

A death penalty for Palestinians but not for Jewish Israelis who committed similar crimes. That's apartheid. And still not a red line for western States who will continue their policy of support; because if genocide is not a red line, what is? www.reuters.com/world/middle...