The Citizen Lab ✓

@citizenlab · Toronto, Canada · joined 25 Apr 2009

Academic research unit at @UofT investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.

118 414Followers

1 410Following

6 971Posts total

49.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views2 188this account4 304median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.85%this account1.62%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.63%this account1.29%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	2 188	4 304	0.51×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.85%	1.62%	1.14×
Engagement rate	1.63%	1.29%	1.26×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

12.8K3 Jul

775

1.5K

384 Jul

7.9K20 Aug

3K31 Aug

14.2K2 Sep

2.1K

2.3K

843 Sep

3.9K4 Sep

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.79%3 Jul

1.94%

1.37%

1.47%

2.63%4 Jul

1.45%20 Aug

0.37%31 Aug

2.61%2 Sep

2.64%

2.04%

0.00%3 Sep

1.03%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.29%.

What the audience does

Likes60.9%639 in total

Reposts23.4%245 in total

Replies2.1%22 in total

Quotes1.1%12 in total

Bookmarks12.5%131 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Citizen Lab researchers Siena Anstis, @natynettle, and Kate Pundyk write in @lawfare about the U.K. Supreme Court’s ruling that Bahrain could not claim state immunity in a case involving the use of spyware against Bahraini dissidents living in the U.K. Read: 3.9K views · 24 likes · 15 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@citizenlab @ShareConference WIR LEBEN SEIT JAHREN MIT PEGASUS IN BERLIN ALLE TATEN BEWIESEN ALLE TÄTER BEKANNT MOSSAD IST EINGEBROCHEN UM DIESE ZU UNTERSTÜTZEN UND DEUTSCHLAND VERWEIGERT RECHTE UND RECHTSSTAAT WEGEN STAATSRÄSON, ES GEHT UM KRIMINELLE @BMI_Bund @GBA_b_BGH 84 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

2/ At least 11 Serbian pro-democracy campaigners and opposition figures recently received Apple Threat Notifications. Meanwhile, the team from @AmnestyTech has found that NoviSpy spyware is still being deployed against members of the student movement, and that the spyware 2.3K views · 36 likes · 9 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

3/ Apple patched the iMessage exploit as of iOS iOS 18.4.1, but the continued Apple Threat Notifications indicate that the student movement continues to be aggressively targeted with mercenary spyware. If you are concerned your iPhone may be targeted with mercenary spyware, we 2.1K views · 41 likes · 14 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

1/ NEW: an investigation by our collaborator @shareconference reveals widespread spyware targeting Serbia's pro-democracy student movement. The Citizen Lab can confirm that an iPhone belonging to a student was infected with Pegasus spyware in a zero-click attack over iMessage. 14.2K views · 263 likes · 97 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

🔈 Join senior researcher @irenepoet at Data for Policy 2026 on September 8-10. She will be presenting on how AI systems have facilitated the consolidation of state authority differently in India and Vietnam. Register: https://t.co/Xua6XHsyvh https://t.co/i8zzrPr4Kx 3K views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Senior researcher @jsrailton spoke to @techcrunch about the “unprecedented” number of Apple users who recently received notifications alerting them to suspected spyware attacks against their devices. Read: https://t.co/EvAH1SjqBc 7.9K views · 84 likes · 26 reposts · 2 replies 20 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@citizenlab A typewriter holds no invisible signals to be intercepted. The ribbon strikes the page and leaves a physical record. True privacy remains only in the damp woods and heavy iron keys 38 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

4/ We are not attributing these infections to a particular Pegasus operator at this time, but we note an overlap with a previously-identified campaign targeting Russian and Belarusian-speaking exiled journalists and activists in Europe. 1K views · 13 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

3/ This case is not the first time that a European member of parliament has had their devices either targeted or hacked with mercenary spyware. 1.5K views · 14 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 03 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

2/ Kouloglou was infected during key periods of PEGA committee activity, meaning that confidential documents and communications relevant to the committee may have been exposed. 775 views · 11 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 03 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

1/ NEW REPORT: Former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware while serving on the EU committee investigating Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Full report: https://t.co/IPiOhHDKix 12.8K views · 144 likes · 73 reposts · 11 replies 03 Jul 2026 · Open on X →