Rawan Damen

💡 Live | Unlearning Privacy
Happening now! At Mozilla Festival - Udbhav Tiwari @signal.org : “Privacy is not a luxury. It is a human right”.
Featuring also @alexhanna.bsky.social & Lauren Hendry Parsons @mozilla.org
#Privacy #DataProtection #Mozilla #MozFest

YouTube video by Mozilla Unlearning Privacy - Mozilla Festival 2025

Happening now at our #MozFest stage in Barcelona: Unlearning Privacy with Udbhav Tiwari from Signal, @alexhanna.bsky.social, DAIR Institute, and Lauren Hendry Parsons, Mozilla Foundation.

Follow the live stream 🔴📽️ -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT6W...

Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data | TechPolicy.Press Introducing a series from Tech Policy Press and the Knight-Georgetown Institute, exploring why public platform data access is vital in today’s digital world.

Read the first commentary by @leticiabode.bsky.social & @pfchap.bsky.social here 👉 www.techpolicy.press/seeing-the-d...

And stay tuned this week for new essays and our launch event at #MozFest 2025 in Barcelona, where we’ll discuss the future of data access, research, and platform accountability.

Mozilla Festival Schedule For 15 years, Mozilla Festival has been the home for big ideas, bold conversations, and the movement for a better internet. From November 7th to 9th, we’re bringing that energy back to Barcelona, and…

In Barcelona this weekend for #MozFest? Stop by the Germ Network booth on Sunday to meet our CEO Tessa and designer Katherine and play with Germ DM for iOS!

Tazin in an awesomely tailored outfit with a slide asking “what are you protecting? And do you feel like you’re doing that successfully?”

Very excited to see cybersecurity creator Tazin Khan speak about everyday threat models and how we get ahead of them.

She’s also chic af. But not on Bluesky!

#MozFest

My first time at Mozilla Festival in #Barcalona
Very interesting discussions.
Do you want to know about AI in Arabic language? Do you want to collaborate with a huge network of journalists & fact checkers in the Arab World?
Join me Sun@14:45 PM at B1.
Thanks @mozilla.org
#MozFest

A photo of nabiha Syed and Ruha Benjamin on stage at MozFest 2025. The background is orange and the heads of a large audience are visible.

Nabiha Syed and @ruha9.bsky.social in conversation on the main stage at #MozFest

A projected screen. A picture of Nichelle Nichols, the late actress who played Uhura, sitting in the Captain's seat on the Starship Enterprise. Superimposed on the picture are the words in multiple colors: "who owns the future?"

Opening up #MozFest, @ruha9.bsky.social asks us "who owns the future?" but also problematizing the notion of ownership. Need to shift the question, expanding the vision of how we imagine new futures.

Dr Benjamin at Mozfest

Not all speed is movement. - Toni Cade Bambara

The world may be ending. But there are other worlds. - Octavia Butler

Some quotes Dr. @ruha9.bsky.social dropped at #MozFest this morning

Now | At Mozilla Festival in #Barcelona
Opening - Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social Department of African American Studies, Princeton University - #Gaza & genocide is in the heart of “imagination” comprehensive way of thinking. #MozFest

If you are at IPI in Vienna today, come to our panel “Ending Impunity in Gaza” at 12 noon at “Maria Theresia Room” with a central question: how can we end the cycle of impunity for the killing of journalists?
#IPIWoCo25
@globalfreemedia.bsky.social

Each life lost is more than a statistic—every journalist was a person, not just a colleague, but a target.

Yesterday, @rdamen.bsky.social, ARIJ's Director General delivered a powerful speech during #iMEdDIJF25 in the session “She Wasn’t Just a Colleague — She Was a Target.”

At #iMEdDIJF25, @rdamen.bsky.social honours the murdered journalists in Gaza and urges newsrooms to "stop outsourcing courage to freelancers while outsourcing responsibility to silence".

Text card: "MENA: recommendations for media development. - Conprehensive protection, - inclusive and fair media policies, - transparent, unconditional funding for media, - rapid response mechanisms and proactive ris assessments, "

Text card: "MENA: recommencations for media development (cont.); -funding based on needs and impact assessments, - alignment of projects with the local political contexts of each country, - strengthening of local actors' leadership role by engaging them as strategic partners in all stages of project implementation, - simplification of administrative procedurs, - allocation of a portion of budgets for research and learning and creation of regional platforms and digital libraries to share knowledge and support local research agendas."

At yesterday's #DWFreedom deep-dive, researcher Samar Sabry and regional experts @rdamen.bsky.social and @amhanna.bsky.social explored our State of Media Development Report's findings and recommendations for the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Read more here: lnkd.in/enggp8Ss

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary

The Guardian's great, former Middle East correspondent David Hirst has left our world.
He was a deep serious voice in my documentary Al Nakba.
youtu.be/H7FML0wzJ6A?...

GFMD Members Elect New Steering Committee for 2025–2029 The new Steering Committee will officially begin its four-year term on 20 November 2025 at an in-person meeting during the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

We are proud to announce that ARIJ Director General, @rdamen.bsky.social, has been elected for the @gfmd.info steering committee. Rawan Damen joins 16 other members in the committee, 13 of whom are women.

More details ⬇️
gfmd.info/steering-com...

Our journalists are dying. Help us stop this.
#PressFreedom #JournalismIsNotaCrime

التجويع الإسرائيلي يقتل #غزة
Israeli starvation is killing #Gaza

‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’ When he left the Soviet Union for a new life in America, the novelist never imagined he would live under another authoritarian regime. Then Trump got back into power ... Is it time to move again?

‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’

Former Real Madrid manager mentioned in Pandora Papers receives suspended jail term in tax fraud case - ICIJ Spanish courts hit Carlo Ancelotti, now head coach of Brazil, with a one-year suspended prison term and a fine.

Former Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti, now a coach for Brazil’s national team, was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term and more than $450K fine for tax fraud. He appeared in ICIJ’s #PandoraPapers. www.icij.org/investigatio...

Fans Urge Justin Timberlake to Condemn Georgia Crackdown Ahead of Tbilisi Show Fans of the SexyBack star have launched an online petition urging Timberlake to condemn “repression unfolding in Georgia” ahead of his appearance at a scheduled concert in Tbilisi next week hosted as ...

Justin Timberlake concert scheduled for next week in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, has prompted local backlash in the form of an online petition calling for the American pop artist to condemn what it describes as a “dark authoritarian turn” in the country.

www.occrp.org/en/news/fans...

Parliamentary question | The export and use of European dogs as weapons against Palestinian civilians | E-002814/2025 | European Parliament Question for written answer E-002814/2025 to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Rule 144 Anja Hazekamp (The Left), Sebastia...

🚨📣 My latest investigation has reached the EU Parliament.
European-trained military/police dogs are being exported and used by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians. @arijnetwork.bsky.social @binvestigations.bsky.social
#HumanRights
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

Thanks @gfmd.info members for the trust 🌷🙏

📣 ARIJ Director General @rdamen.bsky.social will speak at “Connected & Protected: Community Responses to Digital Harms in Jordan”.

🗓️17 July
📍Fairmont Amman | 🕐 12:30–15:30

The event brings together voices from media, tech, gov & civil society to explore how tech can empower—not harm—communities.

⭕️ This week, ARIJ Board of Directors meeting convened in Copenhagen to review strategic priorities for the second half of 2025. The discussions focused on navigating funding cuts & regional political turbulence, investigative reports, fact-checking, and AI at ARIJ.

🏆 @oneworldmedia.bsky.social announced that ARIJ has won the 2025 Press Freedom Award at the ceremony held on the evening of Wednesday, June 25, in London, UK.

This award is presented to an independent media organization based in the Global South that uses journalism to spotlight pressing issues.

For over 20 years, ARIJ has been more than a hub for investigative journalism — it’s a network of strong professional ties extending beyond the newsroom. These testimonials remind us that real change happens through collaboration with those who share our commitment to responsibility and accuracy.

🏆 Proud Moment for ARIJ🏆

We are thrilled to announce that we have won the Press Freedom Award from @oneworldmedia.bsky.social

This prestigious award honors an independent media organisation based in the Global South that uses journalism to spotlight pressing issues.

@rdamen.bsky.social , ARIJ Director General, after announcing that ARIJ won the Press Freedom Award by @oneworldmedia.bsky.social .

This award is presented to an independent media organization based in the Global South that uses journalism to spotlight pressing issues.

#OWMAwards2025

هناك أمل..
‏الليلة فرنا في أريج بجائزة حرية الصحافة المرموقة ⁦‪في لندن، من بين جميع المؤسسات الإعلامية المستقلة في جنوب العالم.
‏هناك أمل..
‏الليلة وانا اسير في شوارع ريكيافيك في ايسلند، أجد من لا ينسى صحفيي ⁧‫#غزة‬⁩ و ⁧‫#فلسطين‬⁩
‏⁧‫#هناك_أمل‬⁩
@oneworldmedia.bsky.social