Bahrain Watch

Investigative research and analysis collective. Our work centres on digital security, media and information control, financial corruption and arms.

[Bahrain Watch @BHWatch]

REVEALED: Royal Backed “This is #Bahrain” Worked With Trump Advisor to Build Ties with Pro-#Israel Groups. https://t.co/zmK6nUnHi6

[Bahrain Watch @BHWatch]

الزميل @jwsal يقيم ورشة عمل غدا للتدريب على تحرير صفحات الويكيبيديا، الورشة مهمة جدا لتطوير الانتاج المعرفي عن تاريخنا كما أنها تساهم في إثراء المحتوى العربي في الانترنت
التسجيل والحضور مجاني، الورشة مهمة للمهتمين في تطوير المحتوى العربي على الانترنت
https://t.co/HuLGndMeup

[Wikimedia UK @wikimediauk]

Hey all you cool people, what are you doing tomorrow? If you're in London, come to @nwspk in Shoreditch and we will teach you how to edit Wikipedia and improve free knowledge about human rights in the Middle East. https://t.co/RcmfU3u7pN

[Bahrain Watch @BHWatch]

من ضمنها البحرين
"لعبة الغمّيضة: تتبع عمليات برنامج بيغاسوس من شركة NSO في 45 دولة" by @citizenlab: https://t.co/Zj30n74VD6

[Bill Marczak @billmarczak]

Big news from @citizenlab, we have a NEW SPYWARE MAP! This time, the map shows countries where devices infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware appear to be located. Read about how we generated it here: https://t.co/GqudI1JGCv

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

This BBC Arabic documentary is now in English, and includes a number of my views on propaganda and hate speech in the Gulf #gulfstudies

[Future of Journalism @journofutures]

@alaashehabi on why threat-modeling is important for journalists not just in the Middle East but also in the UK due to surveillance #journofutures #nwspk

[Ali Abdulemam @abdulemam]

News that customer of @VIVA_BH can't access Twitter from bahrain
شكاوى من مستخدمي فيفا البحرين حول عدم قدرتهم على الوصول إلى تويتر

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

An excellent piece into the sordid world of Bell Pottinger and the British speciality of reputation laundering and whitewashing human rights abuses https://t.co/C8MPDFZbFv #Bahrain

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Mine and @abulkhaezuran's piece in the @monkeycageblog , updating people on the social media disinformation 'roiling' the Gulf. "A plague of Twitter bots is roiling the Middle East" https://t.co/RBtlouYeHE #Qatar

[Kelly Lewis @KLewisKnowledge]

Bots & the blockade of Qatar: Twitter’s verification process is broken & failing democratic discourse in the Gulf. Research by @marcowenjones suggests 50% of active Twitter users in Saudi may be bots with large networks tweeting up to 100k times a day. https://t.co/u3gx1LDNZk

[Bahrain Watch @BHWatch]

Twitter bots, fake news and propaganda in the Qatar crisis. @marcowenjones https://t.co/AAnCeNu273

[Bill Marczak @billmarczak]

UAE sentences "AMS", probably @Ahmed_Mansoor al-Shehi, to 10 years in prison for telling the truth about (lack of) human rights in the UAE https://t.co/KJourS6LQU

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

My interview with @AJEnglish on the anniversary of the Gulf Crisis, talking disinformation, @saudq1978 and Twitter bots. https://t.co/Mvxjot4Gvm #Botspot

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Yup, true, wrote about it after how deadly last year was in #Bahrain. Donald Trump’s words are a green light to dictators and torturers around the world https://t.co/fWCUa4WGTk by @mehdirhasan

[Chan'ad Bahraini @chanadbh]

Short time lapse of Bahrain's geography from 1984 to 2016 using @cmucreatelab's https://t.co/qhPM4EDIl3

[Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión (CELE) @CELEUP]

Global Perspectives on Fighting Social Media Censorship 📲💻 @PENamerican @hiperderecho @viettan @theinfluencer @BHWatch @gbengasesan

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Many Bahrainis have endured decades of torture and false imprisonment, only to have this repression legitimized by commentators who show a reckless and cruel disregard for the truth. I hope they are proud of this shameful reporting #Bahrain https://t.co/zSu0F6fp26

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

I shall be speaking a little about #Bahrain on this Global Perspectives on Fighting Social Media Censorship panel at RightsCon Toronto 2018 16:00 - 17:00
200B. See you there! https://t.co/13YtFLC4MH @RightsCon #RightsCon

[PEN America @PENamerica]

"It doesn't always matter if there's credible information out there...doesn't always mean people are going to believe it," says @marcowenjones, talking about tackling efforts to discredit legitimate information in Bahrain. #RightsCon