Christoffer Horlitz
chorlitz.bsky.social
Christoffer Horlitz
@chorlitz.bsky.social
Researcher and Investigator on Technology, Weapons, Borders.
The Stasi needed 300,000 people to spy on dissidents.
Today, governments can do it with a few clicks. Pegasus, Cellebrite & co. infiltrate our phones, turning intimate lives into data. Used even within the EU — they’re an always-illegitimate tool of control.
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Visual investigations are transforming how human rights evidence is gathered — and challenged.

How do orgs like @amnesty.org and @forensicarchi.bsky.social navigate this shifting terrain of truth and accountability?
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Das Deutsche Volk: Ein aufrüttelnder Film über den rechten Terroranschlag am 19. Februar 2020 und seine Folgen für die Überlebenden und Angehörigen.

Am 6. Sep. wird er im Moviemento Kreuzberg gezeigt + Q&A mit mir über unsere Forensic Architecture-Recherche sowie @amnesty.de -Kampagne zu dem Thema.
August 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🚨 Our new investigation at Forensis/Forensic Architecture reveals Berlin police violence and misinformation.
July 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Join @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social, @verityc.bsky.social
and I online at @amnesty.de on Tuesday to discuss the possible usage of autonomous weapons in Gaza as well as urgently needed paths to international regulation.
June 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We are currently seeing human rights research being questioned and attacked around the world.

This is why we’d like to take you behind the scenes of how we come to our conclusions.
May 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🤖 Killing in the name of…? Developments in autonomous weapon systems are moving faster than a bullet, with current use cases in Ukraine, Isr/Gaza.

Join us on 7 May to discuss current tech changes and urgent regulation with @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social, @verityc.bsky.social online at @amnesty.de.
April 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Die Liste an Aufsichtsräten in denen Friedrich Merz in der Vergangenheit gesessen hat ist LANG. Die aufrüttelnde @correctiv.org-Recherche zu seinen Wirtschaftsverbindungen zeigt, wer als erstes auf der Matte stehen wird, falls Merz Kanzler wird.
January 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM