“Many of us changed the way we communicate via phones, not only with our sources, but with our families.” This is how journalist @petizagavarrete.bsky.social described the harms from being targeted with spyware. Epistemic rights help explain such attacks: www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...

CPJ’s Jonathan Rozen explores how epistemology, the study of theories of knowledge, can enhance investigations and connect concerns when journalists are targeted. Read now on Open Global Rights 👇

#Sudan: Reports from the weekend indicated that as many as 11 journalists had gone missing in El-Fasher. As of October 30, CPJ had verified the whereabouts of three, who have fled the city. The others remain incommunicado amid ongoing hostilities and communications blackout. cpj.org/2025/10/cpj-...

What are epistemic rights? My latest explores how this concept can enhance our ability to define, expose, and confront threats to press freedom and democracy. www.openglobalrights.org/epistemic-ri...

Journalists in Sudan’s El-Fasher are trapped under siege. They endure violence, hunger and relentless bombardment alongside the civilians they report on. Read CPJ’s new investigation⤵️ cpj.org/2025/10/hunt...

Will you be in Johannesburg Nov. 5? Join us📣 CPJ’s Africa Regional Director Angela Quintal will give opening remarks at the Wits Centre for Journalism and CPJ co-hosted lecture, “Drafted, Censored, Exiled: Journalism Under Siege in Post-Coup Burkina Faso.” 📩RSVP: [email protected]

Senegal has jailed at least three news commentators since April: - Badara Gadiaga, arrested July 9 - Bachir Fofana, arrested June 25 - Abdou Nguer, arrested April 14 Read @pressfreedom.bsky.social's latest on these cases: cpj.org/2025/07/sene...

CPJ’s Africa Regional Director Angela Quintal will be the keynote speaker at the 17th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture, “Surveillance, Safety and the Silencing of Truth," to discuss how shrinking press freedoms undermine the safety of journalists. 🗓️July 13 at 5 p.m. WAT lectureseries.wscij.org

NEW @citizenlab.ca report confirms the targeting of two more journalist with #Paragon spyware in the context of 🇮🇹 Details here: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs... @billmarczak.org @jsrailton.bsky.social

This piece by @lhn.bsky.social points to an important issue. Residential proxies are also being used to attack media sites as part of an “emerging censorship strategy that poses a serious transnational threat to press freedom”: cpj.org/2024/07/cybe... @pressfreedom.bsky.social

CPJ calls on #Senegal to free journalist René Capain Bassène and investigate the mistreatment he’s experienced behind bars. He is serving a life sentence in prison for murder, a crime that witnesses told CPJ he couldn't have committed. cpj.org?p=446557 📷 Family of René Capain Bassène

Four days after journalist Émérite Amisi Musada went missing in Bukavu, the capital of the DRC’s eastern South Kivu province, he was found naked on the edge of nearby Lake Kivu. Amisi told CPJ that he was taken, tortured, and interrogated about his work by unidentified men. cpj.org/2025/04/drc-...

Many of the journalists in CPJ’s 2024 prison census have been sentenced to spend significant parts of their lives in jail. Journalist René Capain Bassène is serving a life sentence in prison for murder, a crime that witnesses told us that he couldn't have committed. More: cpj.org/2025/01/cpj-...

📢 NEW: Investigative journalists in Serbia targeted with Pegasus spyware Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...

The governments of 🇦🇺Australia, 🇨🇦Canada, 🇨🇾Cyprus, 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇮🇱Israel, & 🇸🇬Singapore are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions, according to a new technical report by renowned digital security lab @citizenlab.ca, writes @lorenzofb.bsky.social. techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/r...

"Big tech platforms already collect vast amounts of personal data for advertising and, while some previously resisted government requests, they now seem eager to comply," writes @rondeibert.bsky.social. macleans.ca/politics/the...

“What we are seeing is a steady criminalization of journalists around the world, and it’s a huge threat to press freedom.” www.voanews.com/a/cybercrime...

We're relaunching the Press Freedom Defense Fund to assist newsrooms and reporters facing serious legal threats.

At least 75 human rights organizations have written to the UN Human Rights Council, appealing for the establishment of an independent mandate to investigate and report on rights violations and abuses being committed in eastern DRC, and to support accountability. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

NEW: WhatsApp says it has notified 90 victims, including journalists and members of civil society, that they were targeted with spyware made by Paragon. This is the first time that Paragon is linked to alleged abuse of its products. techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/w...

As the M23 rebel group advance in eastern DRC, journalists are concerned for their safety and rights groups have warned that civilians are at heightened risk. The government has also threatened the press over reporting on the escalating conflict. cpj.org/2025/01/jour...

Real-time bidding, which powers nearly every ad you see online, might be the most privacy-invasive surveillance system that you’ve never heard of. Learn how it works and how to protect yourself.

I spent some time at a remote monastery in Ethiopia's Tigray region, learning how the community that safeguards the world's world's oldest 'illuminated' christian gospels are coping with traumatic grief in the aftermath of war My feature for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...

Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship 🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

Amnesty is doing an other round of Digital Forensics Fellowship, they are looking for 5 to 7 human rights defenders, journalists or technologists working with civil society organizations to receive training on digital forensics and digital threats. careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...

Last day of the #IGF in Riyadh. First time @hrw.org has official access to Saudi Arabia in nearly a decade. The UN should ensure that IGFs are held in environments in which civil society can participate safely without fear of retribution. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

The court just handed WhatsApp a major win in the case against NSO Group ⚖️ 🎉 NSO was found liable under federal #CFAA & state law for #Pegasus hacking through WhatsApp's servers. As a lawyer working on surveillance, let me break down the ruling 🧵 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

U.S. government is urging its senior officials, politicians to ditch phone calls and text messages following intrusions at major American telecommunications companies blamed on Chinese hackers. This might be “the largest telecommunications hack in our nation's history.” #SaltTyphoon #VoltTyphoon

CPJ strongly denounces the killings of four Palestinian journalists in Gaza during the past week and calls for the international community to hold Israel accountable for its attacks against the media. cpj.org/2024/12/isra...

Alongside the alarming spyware findings, this important reporting by @amnesty.org underscores how the abuse of Cellebrite's tools and similar digital forensics technology threatens press freedom and journalists' safety. This tech has been used on other journalists' devices: cpj.org/tags/digital...

"VPNs are only banned in a handful of countries, including North Korea, Iraq, Oman, Belarus and Turkmenistan. But in several others, such as China, Russia, Türkiye and India, governments must approve of VPN services, thus enabling the monitoring and surveillance of users."

Russia's war in Ukraine has brought a "parallel campaign" against the press. New research from the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) and RKS Global documents the scale and impact of mass blocking of media websites in Russia over the past year: ooni.org/post/2024-ru...

On December 3, men in uniform abducted Guinean journalist Habib Marouane Camara as he drove in Conakry. Camara had posted just days earlier that a “commando was on his heels.” A local prosecutor said the arrest was made outside the law and an investigation had been launched. cpj.org/2024/12/guin...