Ahmed Zidan
@zidan.bsky.social
Platforms | Press Freedom | Journalism
Good takes and bad jokes. Dark humor and 🦋hite 🦋ine.
Deputy director, audience, @freedom.press and @pressfreedomtracker.us.
@zidanism on that other site.
Good takes and bad jokes. Dark humor and 🦋hite 🦋ine.
Deputy director, audience, @freedom.press and @pressfreedomtracker.us.
@zidanism on that other site.
📥 “Scolding a U.S. reporter for asking questions about MBS ordering a fellow journalist to be bonesawed to death signals to dictators everywhere that they can murder journalists with impunity.” — @freedom.press
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November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
📥 “Scolding a U.S. reporter for asking questions about MBS ordering a fellow journalist to be bonesawed to death signals to dictators everywhere that they can murder journalists with impunity.” — @freedom.press
Full statement below:
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This reads more like a horror movie than a weather forecast.
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This reads more like a horror movie than a weather forecast.
If Trump had dared to sue in an English court (he can’t because he’s left it too late), the BBC could have replied with the coded response occasionally used by Private Eye: “We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkle v Pressdram.”
“Dear Sir, Fuck off, Yours Private Eye.”
🤣🤣
“Dear Sir, Fuck off, Yours Private Eye.”
🤣🤣
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If Trump had dared to sue in an English court (he can’t because he’s left it too late), the BBC could have replied with the coded response occasionally used by Private Eye: “We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkle v Pressdram.”
“Dear Sir, Fuck off, Yours Private Eye.”
🤣🤣
“Dear Sir, Fuck off, Yours Private Eye.”
🤣🤣
Help my colleagues at Dangerzone test their important app: dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-11...
Dangerzone is @freedom.press' open-source tool that sanitizes attachments and removes any potential malware.
Just download, install and report any errors. You’ll have good karma for the rest of the week. 😇
Dangerzone is @freedom.press' open-source tool that sanitizes attachments and removes any potential malware.
Just download, install and report any errors. You’ll have good karma for the rest of the week. 😇
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Help my colleagues at Dangerzone test their important app: dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-11...
Dangerzone is @freedom.press' open-source tool that sanitizes attachments and removes any potential malware.
Just download, install and report any errors. You’ll have good karma for the rest of the week. 😇
Dangerzone is @freedom.press' open-source tool that sanitizes attachments and removes any potential malware.
Just download, install and report any errors. You’ll have good karma for the rest of the week. 😇
Spotify wants you to stay on the app even longer.
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Spotify wants you to stay on the app even longer.
I asked ChatGPT to predict its own growth compared to Google queries and present it in a graph.
November 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I asked ChatGPT to predict its own growth compared to Google queries and present it in a graph.
Israel demanded Google, Amazon use secret "wink" to sidestep legal orders: Tech giants agreed to adapt internal processes & “subordinate” their standard contractual terms in favor of Israel’s demands, in order to win Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli govt: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Israel demanded Google, Amazon use secret "wink" to sidestep legal orders: Tech giants agreed to adapt internal processes & “subordinate” their standard contractual terms in favor of Israel’s demands, in order to win Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli govt: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
My travel reading companions..
September 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
My travel reading companions..
If you are a news outlet and don’t have a reporter on one of the boats that are sailing to break the siege on Gaza, “this is a political decision, not a news decision,” @dropsitenews.com’s Sharif Abdel Koddous says.
(DSN does have a reporter with the flotilla)
Live: www.youtube.com/live/LsAbOx4...
(DSN does have a reporter with the flotilla)
Live: www.youtube.com/live/LsAbOx4...
September 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
If you are a news outlet and don’t have a reporter on one of the boats that are sailing to break the siege on Gaza, “this is a political decision, not a news decision,” @dropsitenews.com’s Sharif Abdel Koddous says.
(DSN does have a reporter with the flotilla)
Live: www.youtube.com/live/LsAbOx4...
(DSN does have a reporter with the flotilla)
Live: www.youtube.com/live/LsAbOx4...
That's a nice summary of Trump-crusader Carr's tenure at the helm of the FCC so far.
September 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
That's a nice summary of Trump-crusader Carr's tenure at the helm of the FCC so far.
Are you at #ONA25 in New Orleans?
Come say hi and learn from my @freedom.press' colleague David Huerta how to close back doors.
📍 Empire A
@journalists.org
Come say hi and learn from my @freedom.press' colleague David Huerta how to close back doors.
📍 Empire A
@journalists.org
September 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Are you at #ONA25 in New Orleans?
Come say hi and learn from my @freedom.press' colleague David Huerta how to close back doors.
📍 Empire A
@journalists.org
Come say hi and learn from my @freedom.press' colleague David Huerta how to close back doors.
📍 Empire A
@journalists.org
What highly-corrupt times we’re living in.
It’s so sad to live going backwards into the future.
Nothing strictly new here, but just the way the Times summarized it in a few successive paras make me angry: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...
It’s so sad to live going backwards into the future.
Nothing strictly new here, but just the way the Times summarized it in a few successive paras make me angry: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...
September 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
What highly-corrupt times we’re living in.
It’s so sad to live going backwards into the future.
Nothing strictly new here, but just the way the Times summarized it in a few successive paras make me angry: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...
It’s so sad to live going backwards into the future.
Nothing strictly new here, but just the way the Times summarized it in a few successive paras make me angry: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...
I asked Gemini to project this platform's user base in 2027.
These are reasonable projections indeed, but I'd probably exclude the third.
These are reasonable projections indeed, but I'd probably exclude the third.
August 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I asked Gemini to project this platform's user base in 2027.
These are reasonable projections indeed, but I'd probably exclude the third.
These are reasonable projections indeed, but I'd probably exclude the third.
Numbers are just staggering..
@dropsitenews.com has doing incredible journalism while also calling out outlets, like the Times and BBC, for their biased coverage.
Reporting by @jeremyscahill.com and @ryangrim.bsky.social
Subscribe and support them if you can: www.dropsitenews.com/p/rage-mount...
@dropsitenews.com has doing incredible journalism while also calling out outlets, like the Times and BBC, for their biased coverage.
Reporting by @jeremyscahill.com and @ryangrim.bsky.social
Subscribe and support them if you can: www.dropsitenews.com/p/rage-mount...
August 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Numbers are just staggering..
@dropsitenews.com has doing incredible journalism while also calling out outlets, like the Times and BBC, for their biased coverage.
Reporting by @jeremyscahill.com and @ryangrim.bsky.social
Subscribe and support them if you can: www.dropsitenews.com/p/rage-mount...
@dropsitenews.com has doing incredible journalism while also calling out outlets, like the Times and BBC, for their biased coverage.
Reporting by @jeremyscahill.com and @ryangrim.bsky.social
Subscribe and support them if you can: www.dropsitenews.com/p/rage-mount...
Hold ICE accountable: freedom.press/issues/hold-...
August 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hold ICE accountable: freedom.press/issues/hold-...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not the secret police, as much as they’d like to be.
The Trump administration has given ICE increasing power to act with impunity.
@freedom.press is using FOIAs to expose their unlawful actions and policies.
freedom.press/the-classifi...
The Trump administration has given ICE increasing power to act with impunity.
@freedom.press is using FOIAs to expose their unlawful actions and policies.
freedom.press/the-classifi...
August 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not the secret police, as much as they’d like to be.
The Trump administration has given ICE increasing power to act with impunity.
@freedom.press is using FOIAs to expose their unlawful actions and policies.
freedom.press/the-classifi...
The Trump administration has given ICE increasing power to act with impunity.
@freedom.press is using FOIAs to expose their unlawful actions and policies.
freedom.press/the-classifi...
I agree with ChatGPT 5: "Neutrality in the face of genocide can end up functioning as complicity."
August 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I agree with ChatGPT 5: "Neutrality in the face of genocide can end up functioning as complicity."
My colleague @seth-stern.bsky.social says it as it is, likening the media ownership currently in the U.S. to that of Russian media in the 1990s heyday of the oligarchs. “I don’t think we are at a point where Trump has captured the US media but he has softened it.”
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
August 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
My colleague @seth-stern.bsky.social says it as it is, likening the media ownership currently in the U.S. to that of Russian media in the 1990s heyday of the oligarchs. “I don’t think we are at a point where Trump has captured the US media but he has softened it.”
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
"This is giving Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy vibes," says my colleague @laurenleharper.bsky.social.
"(But make it Stephen Miller.)" 😂😂
"(But make it Stephen Miller.)" 😂😂
August 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"This is giving Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy vibes," says my colleague @laurenleharper.bsky.social.
"(But make it Stephen Miller.)" 😂😂
"(But make it Stephen Miller.)" 😂😂
"Change-centric Journalism does not propose that journalists dictate outcomes. Rather, it insists that journalism must become deeply aware of the context in which it operates, and effectively incorporate the needs of the communities it serves." @simonajaz.bsky.social / @reutersinstitute.bsky.social.
August 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Change-centric Journalism does not propose that journalists dictate outcomes. Rather, it insists that journalism must become deeply aware of the context in which it operates, and effectively incorporate the needs of the communities it serves." @simonajaz.bsky.social / @reutersinstitute.bsky.social.
In a letter to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel at the DC Court of Appeals, @freedom.press asked the body Monday to investigate—and potentially disbar—FCC Chair Brendan Carr.
“It seems obvious to us that a licensed attorney should not be able to help his boss make a mockery of the legal system…”
“It seems obvious to us that a licensed attorney should not be able to help his boss make a mockery of the legal system…”
July 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
In a letter to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel at the DC Court of Appeals, @freedom.press asked the body Monday to investigate—and potentially disbar—FCC Chair Brendan Carr.
“It seems obvious to us that a licensed attorney should not be able to help his boss make a mockery of the legal system…”
“It seems obvious to us that a licensed attorney should not be able to help his boss make a mockery of the legal system…”
A “working credit card” killed me, @theonion.com. Haha 😂
July 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A “working credit card” killed me, @theonion.com. Haha 😂
Chilling in the park and reading this masterpiece made my weekend.
Larry David recounts a fictional production meeting of Curb as it was held, not in LA, but in today’s White House.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Larry David recounts a fictional production meeting of Curb as it was held, not in LA, but in today’s White House.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
July 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Chilling in the park and reading this masterpiece made my weekend.
Larry David recounts a fictional production meeting of Curb as it was held, not in LA, but in today’s White House.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Larry David recounts a fictional production meeting of Curb as it was held, not in LA, but in today’s White House.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...