Madeline Earp

Press freedom, digital rights. She/her/we/us. @[email protected]

[Madeline Earp @madelineearp]

Since #MahsaAmini died 5 months ago today

#Iran detained 95 journalists, seizing devices from at least 48.

@YeganehSalehi told me what happened after #IRGC tool laptops & phones from her and @jrezaian in 2014

Surprisingly, it involved US software.

https://t.co/81YKvRlL9a

[Alec Muffett @AlecMuffett]

BREAKING: it is hard to overstate the importance of this — #OnlineSafetyBill advocates have been conflating @WhatsApp's anti-malware features with the spyware called-for by the bill.

WhatsApp's head of engineering lays down some facts:

https://t.co/qi8isXRCaB

[Rebecca Lowe @reo_lowe]

Lovely to see this in the latest edition of @NatGeoUK. Best of luck to all my fellow nominees, and can't wait to hang out at @StanfordsTravel (and hear the winner, by god) next week! 💪🎉 https://t.co/0LJHoj40FG

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

The UK law is an existential threat to privacy & to any messaging service that provides real privacy. We need to fight this together.

As I've repeated, Signal will do everything it can to continue providing truly private messaging to people in the UK, and everywhere. 1/

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

@RoopM83 @Riana_Crypto We'll do everything we can to make sure people in the UK can continue to access Signal. Everything except break our privacy promises.

[Madeline Earp @madelineearp]

Global #contentmoderation #netfreedom implications also

https://t.co/MUV8sJcTTi

[Madeline Earp @madelineearp]

And as @zidanism @pressfreedom has reported, dozens of journalist accounts already suppressed in Turkey

https://t.co/Phyl52jsQi

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

Twice today in Taamneh oral arguments, Twitter’s counsel said platforms should be exposed to liability in the U.S. if Turkish police told them a post was terrorist content, and they did not take it down.

That is so obviously wrong, we shouldn’t need this chilling illustration.

[Digital Security Lab Ukraine @DSLab_Ukraine]

1/3 Ongoing malware attack on Ukrainian NGOs.

NGOs receive phishing emails from a “court” or a “telecom company”. Emails contain an archive protected by a password to evade automatic detection.

[GIJN Africa @gijnAfrica]

Authorities often take phones & computers into custody when they are investigating a journalist. But how do they use this device arrest against reporters?

@madelineearp, the tech editor at @pressfreedom, examines how forensic tools present new threats. https://t.co/0iv1eADLnA

[Naomi Zeveloff @NaomiZeveloff]

New from @pressfreedom's @madelineearp: Iranian authorities have powerful tools at their disposal to aid in convictions of journalists arrested for covering #MahsaAmini protests: the reporters' devices. https://t.co/G8TDFOwPcj

[Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom]

#Iran’s seizure of detained journalists’ devices raises fears of fresh arrests, convictions — new feature article by CPJ's @madelineearp
https://t.co/NU8xG0coY3

[Madeline Earp @madelineearp]

Very lucky to get to work with the always inspiring @YeganehSalehi and editor extraordinaire @NaomiZeveloff on this!

[Madeline Earp @madelineearp]

Since #MahsaAmini died 5 months ago today

#Iran detained 95 journalists, seizing devices from at least 48.

@YeganehSalehi told me what happened after #IRGC tool laptops & phones from her and @jrezaian in 2014

Surprisingly, it involved US software.

https://t.co/81YKvRlL9a

[Jodie Ginsberg @jodieginsberg]

In 2022, @pressfreedom's Emergencies team recorded a 24% rise from the previous year in requests from journalists for safety workshops and financial support.

Today we launch three new safety videos as we step up our direct assistance to journalists at risk.

[CPJ Asia @CPJAsia]

#India: The Committee to Protect Journalists called on authorities to stop harassing journalists on Tuesday after tax officials raided offices of the British broadcaster BBC in New Delhi and Mumbai.

@BBCIndia

https://t.co/Kg0Bi2bJXy

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The Indian government's attempt to block a BBC documentary on Modi's passive complicity in murderous attacks on Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 utterly backfired. It drew more attention to the film and showed the inefficacy of such censorship measures. https://t.co/AAR2YiE7dJ

[Madeline Earp @madelineearp]

All credit to the actual author @behlihyi @CPJAsia!

[Mediagazer @mediagazer]

A look at the growing number of Hong Kong journalists now reporting from the UK, Australia, and other countries, after a crackdown on press freedom in the city (@madelineearp / Committee to Protect Journalists)

https://t.co/lajHXcTmK9
https://t.co/wdwjMk3xFK

[Tom Gibson @at_tgibson]

The European Parliament needs to get behind the European Media Freedom Act: 44 orgs call on @EPCulture, @EP_SingleMarket and @EP_Justice to make the #EMFA strong, ambitious -and a Regulation. It can build a future for free and independent media in Europe.
https://t.co/Ic3lfXvonG

[Advocacy Assembly @Advocassembly]

"Kill switch: reporting on and during internet shutdowns" is a guide for data journalists with real-world examples for measuring #internetshutdowns

[Vinicius Fortuna @vinifortuna]

Blocking of @Twitter in #Turkey, according to my analysis of @OpenObservatory data. Some networks are not blocking.

[Ahmed Zidan @zidanism]

Procuring spyware tools can’t be deterred in a country, El Salvador, “where there is no balance of power,” says @_elfaro_’s @CarlosDada at @knightcolumbia’s event, “Spyware and the Press” at @columbiajourn.

Other panelists: @cmd_dc @RonanFarrow

Moderator: @SheilaCoronel