Pegasus isn't the only spyware raising concerns about who can access data from targeted devices. Here's my latest with the @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social on surveillance cases in Poland, Greece, Kenya, and Angola. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

Spyware has been used repeatedly against journalists and other members of civil society worldwide. New cases highlight risks of privacy and accountability. More from @jonathanrozen.bsky.social, CPJ Africa Program Coordinator, for @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social ⤵️ www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

Legal troubles for Kenyan journalist Peter Maseke Mwita date back to December 31, 2025, when he was detained over information he shared in a WhatsApp group. Muthoki Mumo reports with @pressfreedom.bsky.social on the chilling use of Kenya's cybercrime law: cpj.org/2026/02/keny...

Kenya court due to rule on cybercrimes law as another journalist faces jail - Committee to Protect Journalists

Nairobi, February 26, 2026—Journalist Peter Maseke Mwita has a keener interest than most in Friday’s upcoming ruling on the constitutionality of Kenya’s cybercrime law — legislation that could see him...

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Angolan journalist and lawyer Teixeira Cândido wants to know who targeted him with Predator spyware, and he wants justice. Here's my latest for @pressfreedom.bsky.social, reported with Geralda Embaló. @amnesty.org's Security Lab identified the forensic evidence. cpj.org/2026/02/i-li...

‘I literally felt naked’: Angolan journalist Teixeira Cândido targeted with Predator spyware - Committee to Protect Journalists

Angolan journalist and lawyer Teixeira Cândido wants to know who targeted him with spyware, and he wants justice. “First and foremost, we must seek to find out who the entities are that have acquired ...

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🚨 - 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. 🧵👇

🚨 A huge leak exposes the new targets and internal operations of Intellexa, the secretive and murky company behind the notorious Predator spyware. Introducing #IntellexaLeaks, a joint investigation with partners @insidestory.gr, @haaretzcom.bsky.social & WAV Research Collective 🧵👇

JOB OPPORTUNITY- open to candidates remote within the US: @techpolicypress.bsky.social seeks an Assistant Editor to manage audience and contributor engagement! More details here: jobs.gusto.com/postings/tec...

“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...

Epistemic rights help explain attacks on the press

This concept can enhance investigations and connect concerns when journalists are targeted.

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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 👇

Epistemic rights help explain attacks on the press

This concept can enhance investigations and connect concerns when journalists are targeted.

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#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-...

CPJ calls for protection of journalists in Sudan’s El-Fasher, immediate release of those abducted - Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, October 30, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by reports emerging from El-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur state, which the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) ...

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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...

Epistemic rights help explain attacks on the press

This concept can enhance investigations and connect concerns when journalists are targeted.

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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: tshepiso.ntombela@wits.ac.za

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...

Senegalese commentator arrested, prime minister calls for media boycott - Committee to Protect Journalists

Dakar, July 14, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Senegalese authorities to release news commentator Badara Gadiaga, to cease arresting journalists, and to refrain from retaliating ag...

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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

Graphite Caught: First Forensic Confirmation of Paragon’s iOS Mercenary Spyware Finds Journalists Targeted - The Citizen Lab

We conducted a forensic analysis of devices belonging to two journalists who were notified by Apple that they were targeted with advanced spyware.

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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

Cyberattackers use easily available tools to target media sites, threaten press freedom - Committee to Protect Journalists

When exiled Russian news website Meduza was hit with a flood of internet traffic in mid-April, it set off alarm bells among the staff as the deluge blocked publishing for more than four hours and brie...

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In an effort to evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to “residential proxy” services that cover their tracks by making it look like everyday online activity. www.wired.com/story/cyberc...

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-...

DRC journalist Émérite Amisi Musada reports being abducted, tortured over war coverage - Committee to Protect Journalists

Kinshasa, April 21, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the mistreatment of Congolese journalist Émérite Amisi Musada, who was abducted by men in civilian clothes on April 15 after...

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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/...

Journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware - Amnesty International Security Lab

Amnesty International has found evidence that two journalists at the Serbia-based Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (“BIRN”), an award-winning network of investigative journalists, were targeted ...

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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...

Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers | TechCrunch

The Citizen Lab said it believes several governments may be customers of spyware maker Paragon Solutions.

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"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...

The U.S. Wants Canada to Become A Police State - Macleans.ca

Appeasing Trump's border demands only emboldens authoritarians worldwide. Here's why we must resist.

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“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...

Cybercrime laws risk 'steady criminalization' of journalists, analysts warn

Changes in Pakistan, Myanmar risk adding to already repressive reporting environment, media watchdogs say

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

The Intercept Relaunches Press Freedom Defense Fund

PFDF will provide assistance to reporters facing serious legal threats, plus a program to help news organizations implement risk reduction strategies.

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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...

WhatsApp says it disrupted a hacking campaign targeting journalists with spyware | TechCrunch

The Meta-owned company said the campaign was linked to Israeli spyware maker Paragon.

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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...

Journalists covering eastern DRC conflict face death threats, censorship - Committee to Protect Journalists

The M23 rebel group’s assault on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Goma has brought familiar dangers for Congolese journalists, who for years have navigated intimidation and attac...

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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.

Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How

Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliv...

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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...

In Search of Ethiopia's Garima Gospels

Some of the world’s oldest Christian manuscripts are in hiding from the violence that has ripped through their region

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