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The Digital Safety Helpdesk at SMEX
In April 2020, SMEX launched the Digital Safety Helpdesk to support internet users, activists, journalists, bloggers, and human rights organizations…
To our Bread&Net community, we will finally meet again from 23-26 November!
We invite you to register for Bread&Net 2021, our yearly unconference on digital rights in its fourth edition, taking place…
#FreeAlaa: Freedom for our courageous friend and human rights defender, Alaa Abdel Fattah
Our courageous friend and colleague, Egyptian activist and technologist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, must be released from his arbitrary detention immediately….
The Oversight Board’s decision on Palestine is a step in the right direction, now Facebook needs to step up
We, the undersigned organizations, welcome the recent decision by Facebook’s Oversight Board on Facebook’s unjustified removal of news content related…
RDR Corporate Accountability Index: Tech Companies in the Region Have Unregulated Power
Advancements in technology in the past decade have led tech companies to wield unprecedented power over the online sphere. Despite…
Facebook’s Moderation ‘Mistakes’ Silence Palestinian Voices
On September 14, Facebook’s Oversight Board issued a decision to restore a post originally published by Al-Jazeera’s Facebook page, featuring…
Yemen: The Race for Censorship
As the war in Yemen rages on, and while the country is witnessing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis according to…