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 976Posts total

63.7KViews on collected posts

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The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab14 Sep

Join senior fellow @Cyn_K tomorrow, September 15th at 7PM ET, for Civic Tech Toronto Meetup #560. She will present a recent joint brief by @citizenlab and @cancivlib that analyzes the privacy and human rights implications of Bill C-22. Register here: https://t.co/c29VALv6m6 ht

2.6K views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab10 Sep

1/ A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers have called for three Indian companies that have hacked and stolen data from Americans to be added to the economic sanctions “entity list.” Read the TechCrunch coverage here: https://t.co/LLXOuqJViD 3.8K views · 19 likes · 11 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab9 Sep

Citizen Lab researchers Noura Aljizawi, Shaila Baran, @mmichae1sen and Siena Anstis have a new paper in a special issue of @journalsafetech. Through the experiences of 25 exiled queer women activists from the Global Majority, they uncover a critical “protection gap” in 3.9K views · 19 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab7 Sep

📣 Senior researcher Noura Aljizawi will present on taking a “queering cybersecurity” approach to digital transnational repression with the Journal of Online Trust and Safety tomorrow (September 8) at 11am ET. Join: https://t.co/UhSsYNsMHb 🔐 595654 3.7K views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab4 Sep

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 Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab3 Sep

@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 Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab2 Sep

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 Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab2 Sep

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 Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab2 Sep

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 Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab31 Aug

🔈 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 Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab20 Aug

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 Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab4 Jul

@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 Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab3 Jul

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 Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab3 Jul

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 Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab3 Jul

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 Open on X →

The Citizen Lab ✓@citizenlab3 Jul

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 13.1K views · 144 likes · 73 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

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11 постов за последние 90 дней рядом с диапазоном 100K–1M подписчиков. показывается большему числу людей, чем аккаунты того же размера.

Медианные просмотры3 693этот аккаунт5 983медиана для 100K–1M

Охват, %3.12%этот аккаунт1.49%медиана для 100K–1M

Вовлечённость, %0.82%этот аккаунт0.93%медиана для 100K–1M

Показатель	Этот аккаунт	Медиана для 100K–1M	Отношение
Медианные просмотры на пост	3 693	5 983	0.62×
Охват (просмотры ÷ подписчики)	3.12%	1.49%	2.09×
Вовлечённость	0.82%	0.93%	0.89×

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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

1.5K3 Jul

384 Jul

7.9K20 Aug

3K31 Aug

14.2K2 Sep

2.1K

2.3K

843 Sep

3.9K4 Sep

3.7K7 Sep

3.9K9 Sep

3.8K10 Sep

2.6K14 Sep

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.37%3 Jul

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

0.30%7 Sep

0.59%9 Sep

0.82%10 Sep

0.23%14 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes60.4%689 in total

Reposts23.1%264 in total

Replies2.1%24 in total

Quotes1.1%13 in total

Bookmarks13.2%151 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.

Последние посты

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Views per post

Engagement rate per post

What the audience does

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