Social Media

Resources

• BookWyrm: Federated Social Network for Reading and Reviewing

• Doxxing and Online Harassment Prevention Tips (ACLU)

• Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook- Tools for getting off of Facebook & making your Facebook data more secure 

• How to Change Your Settings to Make Yourself Less Valuable to Meta (John Oliver, February 2025)

• InfoSec for Activists

• MayFirst: encrypted hosting service 

• Orbot and Orfox- private browsing on your phone 

• ProtonMail: encrypted email 

• Signal: encrypted texting and calling 

• Tech Won't Save Us

• Tor - private browsing on your computer 

• Twitter Activist Security: Guidelines for Safer Resistance

• Unite: A Practical Guide for Using Social Media To Build Groups For Action: guide to grassroots organizing using social media 

Articles

• Davis, Wynne. “It’s Not Just the Park Service: ‘Rogue’ Federal Twitter Accounts Multiply.” npr.org, 27 Jan. 2017.

• Doctorow, Cory. “It’s Awesome to See All These ‘Rogue’ Government Agency Twitter Accounts, but What about Hoaxes?” boingboing.net, 26 Jan. 2017.

• McCormick, Rich. “On the Internet, Nobody Knows if You’re a National Park.” theverge.com, 26 Jan. 2017. 

• Morgan, David. “Government Science Goes Rogue on Twitter.” cbsnews.com, 26 Jan. 2017. 

• Plunkett, James. "How to Leave Twitter: Be a Part of the Crumbling." Medium, 9 Aug. 2024.