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Luis Barrueto

@lebarrueto.bsky.social
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From Guatemala, based in Berlin 🇩🇪 | 🏳️‍🌈 activist | Work in human rights and digital security

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The *respectable* way to oppose the actually-existing AI industry is to write white papers that they can comfortably ignore. But vulgar AI opponents keep insisting on attacking the industry at the point where (1) it is most vulnerable and (2) opponents have the most leverage. How very dare they?
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Join us today!
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Join us tmrw. to discuss how actors engaged in protection efforts are stepping up to the challenge of addressing digital risks in conflict and crisis. Register: www.accessnow.org/event/digita... @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social @witnessorg.bsky.social @cloudflare.social @oxfaminternational.bsky.social
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Resistance is always embodied – whether on the frontlines of a protest or the defense of a river. So it is for resisting technoauthoritarianism: “In truth, anti-datacenter organizing is the real fight, one centered on an industry choke point that people can reach out and touch”
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Truly honored to support and recognize my colleagues who, instead of bending to pressures, took a principled position to back dissenters and resist the further encroachment of civic space. We are stronger when we stand together ✊ @arzugeybulla.bsky.social @accessnow.org
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW: A hack-for-hire group targeted victims with Android spyware and with phishing attacks to break into iCloud backups. The group, codenamed BITTER, has alleged ties with Indian government, and attacked victims in the Middle East and North Africa, including journalists and government officials.
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Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups | TechCrunch
Security researchers exposed a spying campaign by a hack-for-hire group that used Android spyware and phishing to steal iCloud credentials and hack victims’ devices.
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Access Now @accessnow.org · 08/04/2026
Espionage enables repression! In collaboration with Lookout + @smex.org, our Digital Security Helpline exposes a hack-for-hire phishing campaign targeting journalists and dissidents in the MENA region. Here’s what we found, and what it means for civil society 🧵
Espionage enabling repression? 

The latest investigation by our Digital Security Helpline shows how it’s happening!
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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 20/03/2026
The war in Iran could trigger a global food shock • More than 1.1mn tonnes of fertiliser and fertiliser inputs is currently stuck in the Gulf • Shortages are starting during northern hemisphere’s planting season, raising the risk of lower harvests for staples like rice www.ft.com/content/1054...
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Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This is "our" Manifesto for a Free Internet. We are Iranian Women's Coalition for Internet Freedom. Happy International Women's Day! initiated by @azadehakbari.bsky.social @farzdusa.bsky.social @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social @royapak.bsky.social & Afsaneh Rigot
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Manifesto for a Free Internet
Manifesto for a Free Internet Iranian Women’s Coalition for Internet Freedom Today, people inside Iran are living through a near-total Internet and communications blackout imposed by the Islamic Repub...
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Nessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I've only known Baby Globe for five minutes but if anything happened to him I would become John Wick
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Access Now @accessnow.org · 26/02/2026
How can you detect spear-phishing attacks before it’s too late? Join the first webinar of our new series, “Safe and Strong,” on March 10, which will cover new trends and share practical tips for civil society to raise its defenses. Register: accessnow.org/digital-security-webinars
Spear-phishing: how to stay safe and prevent advanced attacks against civil society
MARCH 10, 2026 / 9 AM ET / 2 PM CET
accessnow.org/digital-security-webinars
Marilou Maala, Incident Response Analyst, Digital Security Helpline
Rebekah Brown, Senior Researcher, Citizen Lab
Mykola Kostynyan, Cofounder, Resident.NGO
Justin Albrecht, Global Director of Mobile Threat Intelligence, Lookout
Moderator: Mohammed Al-Maskati, Digital Security Helpline
Join us to learn and take action to prevent spear-phishing and other digital attacks against activists, journalists, and human rights defenders.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 24/02/2026
As a whole nation remains in shock, horror, and grief, and families are searching for their loved ones in the aftermath of security forces’ massacres on January 8 and 9, Iranian authorities continue to terrorize the population. Read HRW’s new investigation. ⤵️ www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Amazing colleagues @djleufer.bsky.social and Vlad have just finished a triad of articles analizing LLMs and fleshing out the reasons why we should stop the push to make the much-hyped word-guessing machines ubiquitous. Check it out: www.accessnow.org/artificial-i... @accessnow.org
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Artificial Insecurity: access and availability in the age of AI - Access Now
In the third part of our blog series, we look at how the availability of systems is impacted by the proliferation of large language models.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Go read the inner workings of my team at @accessnow.org – Hassen is a dedicated and knowledgeable colleague who leads our digital forensics work:
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
#IntellexaLeaks: A recent investigation offers new insights to the capacities and architecture of Predator spyware + new infection vectors (incl. attacks via advertising). All of this while its maker, Intellexa, retained direct access to espionage victims! securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
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To Catch a Predator: Leak exposes the internal operations of Intellexa’s mercenary spyware - Amnesty International Security Lab
Drawing on leaked internal company documents, sales and marketing material, as well as training videos, the “Intellexa Leaks” investigation gives a never-before-seen glimpse of the internal operations...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/11/2025
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The two Roberts: prodigies the art world forgot www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgot
Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Now we're seeing confirmation of the NSO acquisition. Mark my words, this is the path through which Pegasus gets put on Americans iPhones & Androids. This dictatorship-in-a-box belongs nowhere near our constitutional rights.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
We can’t wait www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
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‘The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death’: Florence Welch on sexism, screaming and the lost pregnancy that nearly killed her
The Florence + the Machine singer talks about life after devastating loss, performing with Taylor Swift and the double standards for women in music
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 22/09/2025
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has reportedly issued a presidential pardon for the imprisoned Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. He is set to be released once Sisi’s decision is published in the Official Gazette. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
“We need a robust digital civil society to try to hold the line today and to try to make things better tomorrow. With the clear slide into tyranny, and tech so central to that slide, we need digital [civil] society more than ever” www.wired.com/story/eff-ci...
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Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. In a WIRED interview, she reflects on encryption, AI, and why she’s not ready to quit the battl...
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Access Now @accessnow.org · 20/06/2025
Heading to #IGF25? Drop by our Digital Safety Clinic! We’re supporting activists, journalists & civil society to boost digital security. 📍 Lillestrøm, Norway 🗓️ June 24–27 🌍 Not there? Reach out here 👉 www.accessnow.org/help/
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Gina @perilinpink.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art. As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky? This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
Two photos. The left shows me, in a red shirt with a white blouse under it, a daisy flower crown in my hair, a navy blue knee length skirt, and brown flat, holding a tray and drinking from a champagne flute. The right painting is a woman in a red shirt with white cuffs, a dark green ankle length skirt, a maid cap, brown shoes, holding a tray and drinking from a champagne flute.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham: "The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Judith Butler with a warning: “If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them.” And an invitation to stand back and come up with our own driving force. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Age verification laws are right up there with real names policies in the pantheon of "you think this is going to help people, but it's actually quite disastrously bad" ideas.
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The Impact of Age Verification Measures Goes Beyond Porn Sites
As age verification bills pass across the world under the guise of “keeping children safe online,” governments are increasingly giving themselves the authority to decide what topics are deemed “safe” ...
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We👏cannot👏abandon👏the👏most👏vulnerable👏communities👏to👏assuage👏the👏most powerful. Even if we did, it would never be enough.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Jenga night 👾
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The Room Next Door 🤌🏼
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Worried about your digital security? It’s always the right time to take action, so here are some key steps to reinforce your digital communications. www.wired.com/story/the-wi...
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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
In Jordan, more than 35 people –including journalists, lawyers, and members of civil society– were targeted with spyware. Access Now unearths yet another instance of NSO Group's Pegasus deployment to repress civil society and enable violations of human rights: www.accessnow.org/publication/...
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How Pegasus spyware crushes civic space in Jordan
Access Now launched the new investigation report to reveal how Pegasus spyware crushes civic space in Jordan.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
Andrea Long Chu warns against the freedom of speech trap: “The very idea of free speech, especially when deployed outside of its narrow constitutional sense, tends to obfuscate the material stakes of a situation.” nymag.com/intelligence...
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Surprising to no one, but important research still: Verified accounts thrive as they spread dis/misinformation on Israel-Gaza, according to this ProPublica report. They also say Community Notes is not –I would say cannot be– up to the challenge. www.propublica.org/article/x-ve...
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How Verified Accounts on X Thrive While Spreading Misinformation About the Israel-Hamas Conflict
With the gutting of content moderation initiatives at X, accounts with blue checks, once a sign of authenticity, are disseminating debunked claims and gaining more followers. Community Notes, X’s fa...
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
"Beginning of the end" for fossil fuels? Looks closer to our end as a species. Worse still is that the next COP will go to another petrol state and fossil fuel groups will continue to have the upper hand, when activists and environmental defenders face crackdown. unfccc.int/news/cop28-a...
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
On the Oversight Board's role in Israel-Hamas conflict: "“It’s not clear why some of these exceptions are made for some conflicts and not others". This is why human rights law should be adopted by platforms and baked into their operations: www.wired.com/story/oversi...
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Israel–Hamas Conflict Sparks Meta Oversight Board’s First Emergency Case
The board is going to look at two posts removed for violating Meta’s policies against sharing graphic imagery and depicting dangerous organizations and individuals.
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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 16/11/2023
It’s hard to watch the horrific scenes coming from Gaza and the escalating death toll. @marwasf.bsky.social joins @parismarx.bsky.social to discuss the info war on social media, internet shutdowns, and what people can do to support Palestinian rights. Listen here: techwontsave.us/episode/194_...
Marwa Fatafta, policy and advocacy director at Access Now. “You have so much power, more than you think you have. And every act of solidarity, no matter how big or small, is extremely, extremely important.”
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
New report by Access Now outlines how Palestinians have been cut off by all communication – focuses in October, but the situation continues. Internet shutdowns and telecommunications disruptions in Gaza violate international human rights law.
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Palestine unplugged: how Israel disrupts Gaza’s internet - Access Now
This report illustrates the state of Gaza's internet throughout October 2023 by looking at internet traffic by ISPs and locations.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Several wars, 50+ elections this year, generative AI on the rise, but we come from years in which tech firms ditched their Trust and Safety teams and outsourcing them instead. This "means outsourcing responsibilities to teams with no power to change the way platforms actually work".
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Big Tech Ditched Trust and Safety. Now Startups Are Selling It Back As a Service
The burgeoning trust and safety industry promises to help tech companies navigate scrutiny and regulation. But these services bring problems of their own.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
With no connection to the outside world, whatever happened inside Gaza could be shared or kept secret at the [Israeli] military’s discretion. “More and more, a direct line is being drawn between internet shutdowns and human rights violations”- Access Now's M. Fatafta restofworld.org/2023/exporte...
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The chilling power of Gaza’s internet blackout
Ongoing bloodshed makes the territory’s digital ties even more important.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness (…) to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world. John Cheever quoted by Geoff Dyer
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
The last report by the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity is on the relationship between colonialism and LGBT rights. I'm happy to have contributed with a submission that included some analysis of this topic for Caribbean countries: www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 26/10/2023
We've written up a short guide on how to navigate social media at a time rife with misinformation. Read our tips here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...
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Separating Fact from Fiction on Social Media in Times of Conflict - bellingcat
Bellingcat presents a guide to separating fact from fiction with real, recent examples of misinformation.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Social media, nonetheless, should not be thought of as an unchecked centralized power. Human rights responsibilities exist and we should talk about them more often.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
📣 Civil society demands a ceasefire in Gaza now! Gov’ts, institutions, tech companies must ensure an immediate physical+digital ceasefire to stop attacks on civilians in Gaza and the online targeting of Palestinians around the world. #CeasefireNOW www.accessnow.org/press-releas...
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Civil society calls for physical and digital ceasefire in Gaza - Access Now
We call on international actors to support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, along with a "digital ceasefire" to protect Palestinians in online spaces globally.
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Six years ago today I founded Visibles (visibles.gt) because I believed change was ripe for LGBTQ Guatemalans. Since then, a lot of challenges have come our way, but I am hopeful to see a better organized, active, younger queer community resisting and transforming Central America. 🏳️‍🌈
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