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The Coordinated Harassment Campaign Against Hossam Bahgat

On December 27th, a dehumanizing hashtag against Hossam Bahgat, Founder and Acting Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights…

7 min readDec 30, 2020

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The Coordinated Harassment Campaign Against Hossam Bahgat

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Wafaa Heikal

We Grew up Eating Corona: Memes and Misinformation Surrounding the Virus on Arabic Social Media

As an Arabic speaker, I have viewed, consumed, and received misinformation about Coronavirus on social media networks. I don’t subscribe…

9 min readFeb 17, 2020

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We Grew up Eating Corona: Memes and Misinformation Surrounding the Virus on Arabic Social Media

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Meedan at #RightsCon19: Meme Campaigns, Endangered Evidence, Chat Apps and Election Disinformation

Meedan is excited to once more join the digital rights community and celebrate human rights at RightsCon from June 11 to 14, 2019 in Tunis…

4 min readJun 6, 2019

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Meedan at #RightsCon19: Meme Campaigns, Endangered Evidence, Chat Apps and Election Disinformation

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Wafaa Heikal

Join the #RightsCon Tunis Translation Lab: Call for Arabic, French and Spanish speakers

RightsCon Tunis 2019 is the 8th event in the RightsCon Summit Series. It’s one of the world’s leading conference on human rights in the…

2 min readMay 24, 2019

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Join the #RightsCon Tunis Translation Lab: Call for Arabic, French and Spanish speakers

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Meedan Updates

How Zimbabwe’s fact checkers monitored the 2018 election using Check

During Zimbabwe’s 2018 election, civil society and fact checkers collaborated to debunk fabricated media and local-language misinformation…

6 min readFeb 18, 2019

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How Zimbabwe’s fact checkers monitored the 2018 election using Check

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Meedan Updates

RightsCon Translation Lab 2018: How we did it and what we learned

More than 2000 members attended RightsCon Toronto 2018, but still not all of us who work in human rights or technology was lucky enough to…

5 min readSep 6, 2018

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RightsCon Translation Lab 2018: How we did it and what we learned

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Meedan Updates

From Kenya to Zimbabwe: A new fact-checking collaboration using Check

As we all know the best part of every conference is the connections made and ideas hatched in the hallways. So it was at last month’s IFCN…

6 min readJul 16, 2018

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From Kenya to Zimbabwe: A new fact-checking collaboration using Check

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Meedan Updates

Meedan ♡ Fact Checkers: Global Fact 5

Meedan is pleased to join fact-checkers from all over the world in the Fifth Global Fact-Checking Summit, #GlobalFact5 taking place in Rome…

2 min readJun 12, 2018

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Meedan ♡ Fact Checkers: Global Fact 5

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Meedan at #Rightscon = Translation for Crisis Responders + Countering Social Media Manipulation +…

Meedan designs and develops open source tools (Check, Bridge + Keep) for human rights researchers, investigative journalists, transparency…

3 min readMay 7, 2018

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Meedan at #Rightscon = Translation for Crisis Responders + Countering Social Media Manipulation +…

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How Syrian Archive use open source investigation to support accountability in Syria

Using Check Syrian Archive collaborates with UC Berkeley to analyze, verify and archive video documentation of chemical weapons strikes

8 min readFeb 2, 2018

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How Syrian Archive use open source investigation to support accountability in Syria

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Wafaa Heikal

Wafaa Heikal

Digital journalist covering human rights, technology and media, with a particular focus on social media manipulation. #Verification #OSINT

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