"Can you do investigative journalism from a position of neutrality?" Still a tricky subject because if you're not neutral that suggests bias. But if you go where the facts go it doesn't. From: "Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh," in Columbia Journalism Preview: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Phreeli founder Nick Merrill “is somebody who is extremely principled and willing to take a stand for his principles,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @wired.com. “He's careful and thoughtful, but also, at a certain level, kind of fearless.”

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

🚨 - New report by Haaretz, Inside Story, Inside-IT and Amnesty International release the Intellexa Leaks. Which exposes Intellexa support staff had access through Teamviewer to customer deployments and confirms found IOC's in the past by civil society. 🧵👇

Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip has orphaned at least 56,348 Palestinian children, marking the largest wave of war-related orphanhood in modern history, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza. #Infograph

This three-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza celebrated her birthday on the rubble of what was once her home.

Over the past few years, we’ve created new OONI tools and resources, and we'd love your feedback! Please take a few minutes to complete our survey: ooni.org/post/2025-oo... Thank you! ♥️ Your feedback will help us improve censorship monitoring globally. 🐙 #ooni #censorship #opensource #survey

Tor is upgrading its #relay encryption with a new encryption algorithm called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). CGO prevents attackers from tampering with encrypted traffic, adds forward secrecy, and brings Tor's encryption up to modern standards. blog.torproject.org/introducing-...

Who'd like to read a book on the Intellexa Alliance?

Epstein emails (2.5 GB) Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years. ddosecrets.com/article/epst... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

🏆 Congratulations to the Winners of #GIJC25’s 2025 Global Shining Light Award – Large Outlets Category! GIJN honors three groundbreaking investigations that embody courage, collaboration, and impact in watchdog journalism. 👇

Our annual State of the Onion starts in less than 24 hours, be sure to join our broadcast Nov 12, 1700 UTC on 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTDt... 🧅 or Tor Browser as an Onion Service: xgsobitduxv7gcc5qlveigwiku7qcjn5exf4ayusw4mwq7kfrapmrjyd.onion

I'm on a surprise panel at #MozFest! "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Why Trans Justice is Tech Justice," Immediately after Chelsea Manning's talk, on the mainstage (which begins at 11:30) 💜💙

The portal is live in 10 languages, but we need your help! Join translators worldwide in making Tor documentation accessible to everyone: hosted.weblate.org/projects/tor...

Finding help with Tor just got easier! 📢 We've unified all user documentation under one roof: blog.torproject.org/new-user-sup... This project was a true community effort. Huge shoutout to Sutty coop for building the component library that makes this (and future Tor sites) possible. 🙌

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Ahmed El Mekkawy, a cherished friend of the MENA Alliance for Digital Rights (MADR) and a beloved member of the digital rights community in the Arabic-speaking region.

🚨 PSA: Do you have information to share with news outlets that have lost access to report from the Pentagon? You can share it while protecting your anonymity using @securedrop.org:

💻 In FTM’s latest podcast, @vaspanagiotopoulos.com reveals how EU funds have gone to spyware firms linked to human rights abuses – companies now profiting from taxpayers’ money. ⚠️ Since publication, 39 MEPs have urged the European Commission to act over EU subsidies financing spyware firms.

⚠️ Every call on #Mytel is surveilled. 💰 Every call funds Myanmar junta. Mytel is a biz controlled by Myanmar military with 🇻🇳 Viettel (Vietnam’s defence ministry) 📡 Towers in army bases 💻 Data centres running Chinese surveillance tech 💸 Vast profits that fund war crimes Sanction Mytel & Viettel!

Today's #general_strike for #Palestine in Italy. Just in Palermo we were more than 30,000, marching in the streets and chanting #StopGenocide #FreeFreePalestine. 🇵🇸✊

Atualização: Confirmaram que Miguel foi sequestrado por Israel junto com os outros membros do veleiro Catalina.

🚨Atualização🚨 Confirmaram que Miguel foi sequestrado por Israel junto com os outros membros do veleiro Catalina.

🚨Atualização🚨 Confirmaram que Miguel foi sequestrado por Israel junto com os outros membros do veleiro Catalina.

Por favor leiam e divulguem. Denúncia pelo desaparecimento de Miguel Viveiros de Castro Miguel Viveiros de Castro integrava a Flotilla humanitária rumo a Gaza, levando comida e remédios a uma população sitiada. A Flotilla era uma missão de solidariedade e vida - e por isso mesmo foi atacada. (1/9)

Vamos divulgar!! Queremos notícias do Miguel!

🚨 PSA: Journalists in Gaza are being targetted to prevent reporting on a UN-acknowledged program of genocide. If you are an IDF member with information that could save lives and bring the war to a close, consider sharing it with the press safely via @securedrop.org:

Please read and share. Reporting the disappearance of Miguel Viveiros de Castro Miguel Viveiros de Castro was part of the humanitarian flotilla heading to Gaza, bringing food and medicine to a besieged population. The flotilla was a mission of solidarity and life — and for that very reason, 1/9

Meu amigo de infância, Miguel está desaparecido, sequestrado pelo estado criminoso de Israel.

It has been a few days since anyone donated to their crowdfund page, but the Abu Matar family is still working on their tent site and making progress, thanks to @raindovemodel.bsky.social and the Safebow team. Donate here: chuffed.org/project/1163... to help the family finish their new home.

Miguel Viveiros de Castro, um dos brasileiros sequestrados pelo Estado de Israel quando da captura da flotilha de ajuda humanitária a Gaza, está desaparecido.

Por favor leiam e divulguem. Denúncia pelo desaparecimento de Miguel Viveiros de Castro Miguel Viveiros de Castro integrava a Flotilla humanitária rumo a Gaza, levando comida e remédios a uma população sitiada. A Flotilla era uma missão de solidariedade e vida - e por isso mesmo foi atacada. (1/9)

Today's Internet shutdown in Afghanistan is an extension of recent government-directed shutdowns of fiber optic Internet, localized to specific provinces and motivated by a morality crackdown. Read more in our blog post: ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/reports/tali...

The takedown of educational information about abortion from healthcare providers is chilling as we witness more attacks on online access to information online. Learn more about how the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline had content from their Instagram taken down: www.eff.org/pages/silen....

Blackout in Afghanistan as Taliban orders internet service downed at 12:38 UTC (5:08pm local). Earlier this month, Taliban banned fiber optic internet in a rural province to “prevent immorality.” This shutdown follows brief national outage minutes earlier from 11:33 to 11:53 UTC.

The Pakistani PTA just reacted to our reporting on the firewall (WMS 2.0). Which they denied is true, but at the same time they're admitting using it as a surveillance tool: www.arabnews.pk/node/2616727...

Mytel, one of #Myanmar’s national mobile operators, is a pillar of junta’s biz empire, providing revenue, tech & surveillance capabilities. It installed Geedge surveillance systems in Yangon & Mandalay data centres. 💰 Owned by ▫️ MEC—military conglomerate ▫️ Viettel—Vietnam’s MoD ▫️ Crony—vehicle MNTH

Other provinces affected are Fujian and Jiangsu. The Geedge activity inside China shows high levels of trust that the company enjoyed by the Chinese government. The leak also indicates a close relation between Geedge and Mesalab, an academic research laboratory at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Previous research by the GFW Report already indicated the existence of provincial firewalls across China with different levels of surveillance and censorship. The Geedge leak confirms that. Xinjiang, the home of 11 million Uyghurs, seems to serve as a testing ground for Geedge's new features.

This photo is everything!! (Alaa with his remarkable mother Dr. Laila Soueif, who spent nearly 300 days on hunger strike to secure her son's release)

علاء علي الاسفلت!!!! Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s release after years in prison reminds us: digital rights, human rights, and free expression are inseparable. His release is a victory, but the fight for freedom of expression continues. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The unknown client: A24 is the codename for a client country we were not able to identify. Geedge’s naming convention suggests that the country starts with A and collaboration started in 2024. The implementation of Geedge tools at A24 has been in its early stages when the documents were leaked.

Some ISPs that collaborated with Geedge have received investment from Western institutions. Frontiir (Myanmar) has been supported by the governments of Denmark, Norway and the UK. Safaricom (Ethiopia) received investment from the World Bank Group and British International Investment, among others.

Complicity of Western companies: The Geedge suite relies on the DRM software “Sentinel HASP” to manage its subscriptions. This product is owned by the French aerospace and defense giant Thales Group. Thales confirmed the cooperation, but stated that Geedge does not rely on Sentinel to function.

The Tigray internet shutdown lasted 2 years and was one of the longest in history. It presumably enabled and concealed serious war crimes by hindering people to publish news on social media.

#TheInternetCoup: In Ethiopia, the Geedge suite have been in use in the same time period as the Tigray civil war took place. Geedge began operating in Ethiopia in 2021, one year before the Tigray ceasefire in 2022.

Leaked docs show MPT was first to deploy Geedge systems, enabling real-time spying, helping to build the junta’s surveillance machine. Its partners? Japan’s KDDI & Sumitomo Corp. The companies are still invested despite “amending” their deal. ❌End complicity in junta surveillance & censorship!

He was arrested in 2019 in Egypt and sentenced in 2021 to five years in jail for “spreading false news”.

HUGE HUGE NEWS FROM EGYPT!! Egyptian President Sisi has issued a presidential pardon for activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah.

Israel’s latest intensified bombardment of Gaza has not only killed dozens + displaced tens of thousands but also severed fibre-optic cables, cutting off people from life-saving information + the world. This deliberate silencing must not be ignored. #CeasefireNow! reliefweb.int/report/occup...