Cameran Ashraf, Ph.D.
@camerana.bsky.social
#HumanRights @wikimediafoundation.org / Human rights & cyberconflict @ CEU / Co-founder of @accessnow.org / Founder AzadiArchive "Joy is not made to be a crumb" -Mary Oliver www.cashraf.com
This @nytimes.com article covers Wikipedia’s challenges. The Human Rights team I lead is highlighted for supporting volunteers Proud of @wikimediafoundation.org & my team for fighting for an internet where everyone can share in the sum of all human knowledge www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...
Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet
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The future of knowledge is yours to protect. #Wikipedia25 Donate now ➡️ donate.wikipedia25.org
Very pleased to have helped develop this new paper: Privacy in public: a new whitepaper on privacy in #Wikipedia research diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/02/p... #HumanRights #Privacy
Privacy in public: a new whitepaper on privacy in Wikipedia research
Wikipedia is a global knowledge resource visited more than 15 billion times every month by humans and machines. However, the usage of Wikipedia does not stop here. Wikipedia is a vital resource for…
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Visit Wikipedia - read, contribute to articles, and donate - free knowledge and the ability to have non-paywalled information available online is at stake! www.engadget.com/ai/wikimedia...
Wikimedia says AI bots and summaries are hurting Wikipedia's traffic
The Wikimedia foundation says an AI-fueled drop in traffic could threaten the internets largest repository of trusted information.
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New report out: Think Again: Freedom of Thought in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Very pleased to have played a small part in this publication! #HumanRights
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights@odihr.pl · 10mo agoNew publication on freedom of thought launched as challenges multiply in the age of AI #WarsawHDC Find out more: buff.ly/cFD6ygr
"Keeping Secrets While Exposing the Truth? Balancing Data Protection in Digital Human Rights Archiving" Organised by Center for European Policy Studies with @camerana.bsky.social More information: cpdp.be/31038 #CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching #CPDP #Workshop
The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
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Hong Kong has been doing a deepdive into authoritarianism for 5 years now. What's happening in the US feels similar. A lot I want to share, but here's a start: By @ramshajahangir.bsky.social with @nighatdad.bsky.social @camerana.bsky.social @mishi.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/what-happens...
What Happens When Democracy Falters? Lessons from The Global Majority | TechPolicy.Press
A confluence of troubling trends is reshaping the landscape of global human rights and democratic governance in the Global Majority, writes Ramsha Jahangir.
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A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the Internet (hint: it's Wikipedia) slate.com/technology/2...
A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the Internet
The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors it accuses of antisemitism.
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The effects of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s demise will extend far beyond Syria’s borders, write @natashahall.bsky.social and @joosthiltermann.bsky.social. “The end of Assad seems certain to transform the Middle East’s balance of power.”
The Day After Assad
The Syrian dictator’s stunning fall will scramble the balance of power in the Middle East.
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Makes you wonder what Khamenei and Iran's elite have in their palaces www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Luxury cars and high-end labels: shocked Syrians roam Assad family residences
Footage shows people looting expensive items after ‘butcher of Damascus’ fled to Moscow with family
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There are moral and ideological cases for leaving X, of course, but you don't even need them: the old platform is just *gone* and has been for a long time nymag.com/intelligence...
"... an attacker might interrupt a #ChatGPT session using a... prompt injection of [a filtered name].... The filter also means... it's likely that ChatGPT won't be able to answer questions about this article when browsing the web, such as through ChatGPT with #Search" arstechnica.com/information-...
Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why
Filter resulting from subject of settled defamation lawsuit could cause trouble down the road.
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NEW REPORT: We investigate the rising trend of gender-based digital transnational repression by drawing on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders living in exile across the globe. Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...
No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression - The Citizen Lab
Building upon our prior research and the contributions of other scholars to this field, the aim of this novel study is to understand the security risks and harms caused by digital transnational repres...
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi is now in Ankara to talk Syria with his Turkish counterpart. Via Iranian state media.
Dozens of Central Asian targets hit in recent Russia-linked cyber-espionage campaign therecord.media/central-asia... Central Asia is a strategic #cyber "weak underbelly" for Russia - this campaign targeting #humanrights orgs corresponds with offline infiltration and surveillance of the same orgs
Dozens of Central Asian targets hit in recent Russia-linked cyber-espionage campaign
A group labeled TAG-110 by researchers at the Insikt Group used custom malware to spy on organizations primarily in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan since July.
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