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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 2d

Meta ends (at least for now) political ads in the EU today. Per their ad library data, they've run nearly 11,000,000 different political, social and issue ads in the EU since 2018 and made around €800m from them.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

This is an EU proposed policy with the benign-sounding name "Child Sexual Abuse Regulation" which proposes to screen private online communications using sketchy image-scanning algorithms. It is technically unworkable, and would be a privacy catastrophe, especially for those in authoritarian states

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 2d

Part of your information landscape is very likely fake and designed to influence you. Read @marcowenjones.bsky.social 's investigations to begin grasping the extent. marcowenjones.substack.com/p/nobody-tal...

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Kris Ruijgrok @krisruijgrok.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating insights on Israel’s influence operations in the US, costing millions. Particularly striking is how the contracts openly talk about the usage of bots to “flood the zone”

Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 2d

Summary of some of the government of Israel's $8 million spend in the US in the past few months to serve propaganda to gen Z, manipulate AI, co-copt influencers, and flood the zone with bots open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · May 19

This video was really painful to watch.

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Tarek Megrisi @tmegrisi.bsky.social · May 14

Following the recent violence #Libya lays in a dangerous place for a nation to be in

A ruling elite, acting like everything is normal

And a public desperate to live a normal, dignified, honest life and wondering why they must accept this as normal.

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · May 14

Labour’s immigration “strategy” is bad on three levels:

1. It’s unlikely to work politically. Pandering to the far right on immigration rarely ends well, even if you deliver.
2. Tied to that - don’t raise the salience of issues you’re weak on!
3. What should be the most important: it’s bad policy.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Apr 28

Earlier this month, Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the request of Turkish governmental authorities techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/g...

Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps ... yet | TechCrunch

Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there's currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured.Earlier this

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Mar 11

I don't think it's possible to be truly happy unless you believe your existence is positive sum and brings good to others.

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Kawaakibi Foundation @kawaakibi.org · Jan 21

As Trump settles into the White House for the second time, is right-wing populism destined to keep growing?

@iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social and @gatnash.com explore the structural reasons for its continued rise:
kawaakibi.org/seven-forces...

Seven forces driving the global rise of right-wing populism

As Trump begins his second term as President, the global rise of right-wing populism has never been more dangerous. Global shifts towards right-wing populism are symptoms of deeper, interconnected for...

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · Dec 1

FELLOWSHIPS for Scholars at Risk
Applications until 20.01.2025 at 23:59 (CET). #SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers of non-EU nationality.
Read the call carefully, contact potential supervisor in your academic field.
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SAFE - Supporting  At-risk researchers  with Fellowships in Europe

As a pilot fellowship scheme, the SAFE project offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institutio...

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Jan 11

Really struggling to find good quality Arabic books for my toddler.

Her bookshelf is clearly two-standard: the English ones are well-illustrated, engaging and fun, the Arabic ones have 80s standard amateur illustration and transparently-moralistic stories.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Jan 7

About 3-4 years ago, I predicted that authoritarian governments would start using deepfakes to discredit and attack activists. I have no idea why this hasn't transpired yet, but I'm very grateful it hasn't.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Dec 30

Example: picking Proton instead of Gmail to host your organisation's emails

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Dec 30

People who care about decentralisation should have a bias towards using services from a company which isn't the single globally dominant provider of that service.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Dec 22

Told my two-year-old that I love her hair. She looked at me for a second, processing, and replied "I love your ears!"

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Kawaakibi Foundation @kawaakibi.org · Dec 21

Kawaakibi congratulates the Syrian people on their historic liberation from the Assad regime!

We stand ready to support the rebuilding process of Syria with the Syrian people and remain steadfast partners in this endeavour every step of the way.

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Kawaakibi Foundation congratulates the people of Syria on their liberation from the Assad regime

Kawaakibi Foundation congratulates the people of Syria on their liberation from the Assad regime after 14 years of resistance. This historic moment marks the dawn of a new chapter in their courageous ...

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Nov 24

I wrote something about my experience attending #Devcon and Funding the Commons last week.
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Reflections from DevCon | Ahmed Gatnash

Reflections from attending Ethereum DevCon 7 in Bangkok.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Jan 9

Thank you!

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Dec 30

Public mass protest is a tactic. Like all tactics, it can be effective when part of a wider strategy, and you understand why you're doing it and what the objective is.

It's not effective when the tactic *becomes* the strategy, with no wider theory of how this creates change.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Nov 28

Once we've all recovered enough to be able to think straight again, there will be a reckoning for the Western donors who decided that mid-genocide was the time to cut off funding to human rights groups. aje.io/haqhqv

Western donors cut off funding to Arab groups amid Israel’s war

Western silence on Israel’s assault on Gaza and violence in West Bank also risks rift with Arab groups, activists say

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Nov 28

The genocide in Gaza has made so many take their masks off and out themselves. So many who previously disguised themselves as pro -human rights. One of many things that will never be the same again.

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Open Letter to Human Rights Foundation

We, the undersigned, are dedicated human rights advocates who have been at the heart of the Human Rights Foundation‘s (HRF) community as speakers, partners, and their allies. We write to express ou...

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · Oct 22

Antisemites, islamophobes, tankies, and general grifters are spreading their bs like wildfire right now.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · Oct 16

Worried about what our world looks like after there is no longer even a pretence of or aspiration to moral universalism, and the idea of intentional law looks like nothing but a discredited colonial charade.

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · Oct 10

Shorter Duss: if you declare anti-civilian atrocities acceptable if your ally does them, or in the name of anti-imperialism, you're supporting a world where might makes right. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘We’ve Been Shaken Out of This Fantasy’: How the Left Sees the War in Israel

A former top aide for Bernie Sanders on how Israel's critics on the political left see the Hamas attack and what this means for deal-making in the region.

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