The War Monitor @warmonitor.net Questioning questionable political and geopolitical events. OSINT. Fact checker. Exposing corruption. Anti-fascist. Pro Ukraine. The original War Monitor (Twitter 2013).
Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev Software developer living in Berlin
https://travisbrown.dev for contact info
Jess Nocera @jessmnocera.bsky.social Howard County reporter at The Baltimore Banner // Always Metro4ever // jess.nocera@thebaltimorebanner.com
Leah @allhaeleah.bsky.social Copy editor at The Washington Post. Pun pundit. ✨
Barbara Marcolini @babimarcolini.bsky.social Visual Investigator at Amnesty International. Previously NYT
Kendall Taggart @kendalltaggart.bsky.social Business reporter @ProPublica. Formerly @bloomberg @buzzfeednews @reveal. Reachable on Signal: @kendall.12
Brian Howey @steelandballast.bsky.social Investigative journalist covering Southern law enforcement for @mississippitoday.org.
Record nerd (FOIAs & LPs)
My work: BrianHowey.com
Julie Bykowicz @bykowicz.bsky.social Business and Enterprise Editor
The Baltimore Banner
Local news lover
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work.
wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
Liz Bowie @lizbowie.bsky.social Education reporter for The Baltimore Banner, a nonprofit news organization.
Alissa Zhu @alissazhu.bsky.social Reporter at The Baltimore Banner. tips: alissa.zhu(at)thebaltimorebanner.com. past: NYT Local Investigations Fellowship, Clarion Ledger, Springfield News-Leader
Human Rights Center @hrcberkeley.bsky.social Investigating war crimes, pursuing justice, and preparing tomorrow's advocates.
https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/
Luann Gibbs @luanngibbs.bsky.social 📝 Retired from Cincinnati Enquirer/Cincinnati.com.
🎶 Former: DJ @ Inhailer Radio & WOXY.
📚History nerd.
⚽️❤️Southampton FC.
😻Can often be found petting kittehs.
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Gisela Pérez de Acha @giselilla.bsky.social Open Source Investigative Reporter. Founder and CEO of FactFinder. Formerly teaching OSINT at UC Berkeley. Mexicana. Polyglot. Nerd. More at www.giselaperezdeacha.com
Justin Fenton @justinfenton.bsky.social Investigative reporter at the Baltimore Banner
Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News. "FOIA terrorist." Subscribe to my newsletter, FOIA Files and my FOIA podcast, Disclosure.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/foiafiles
Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social Reporter/editor/narrative coach @Bloomberg.com. Co-author, Unbelievable. Law school dropout/honorary doctor. Formers: ProPublica, Marshall Project, Seattle Times. Perturbable.
https://kenarmstrongwriter.com/
Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social Reporter: ProPublica. Author: Corrections in Ink. Priors: LA Times, Houston Chron, Marshall Project. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social Reporter at ProPublica. Staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Author of CATCH THE DEVIL, to be released by Knopf on July 14. https://www.pamelacolloff.com/
Kirsten Berg @kirstenberg.bsky.social Research Reporter at @ProPublica.org
Lynn Dombek @lynndom.bsky.social Research editor at https://www.propublica.org/. Formerly led research teams at FirstLookMedia, the AP and Time Inc.
Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social @Propublica.org journalist in Detroit, exploring Michigan and the Midwest
Author: "The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy”
Teacher: Alma College MFA program in creative writing
www.annaclark.net
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social Freelance writer, reporter, author. Kentuckian.
rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com / Signal rstauff.20
www.rainesfordstauffer.com
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
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Reed F. Richardson @reedfrich.bsky.social Managing Editor, Global Investigative Journalism Network (@gijn.org). Army veteran. Press freedom. Pro-democracy. Past bylines: FAIRMediaWatch, The Nation, TPM, Alternet, Salon, Mediaite, et al.
“Someone has to investigate the bastards” — Chuck Lewis
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social CEO @Vizlegal.bsky.social | Co-founder @righttoknow.bsky.social | #FOIA, #legaltech, journalism, OSINT, urban design | Fmr Innovation Dir @Storyful |
"Very Irish" 🇮🇪 https://gav.substack.com
Cork, Ireland.
Oren Segal @orensegal.bsky.social Senior Vice President, Counter-Extremism & Intelligence. Host, extremely podcast. 60% of my body is coffee. Basketball junkie. Views my own.
Chip Brownlee @bychipbrownlee.com Staff writer @thetrace.org
Protonmail: chip.c.brownlee@protonmail.com
Signal: byChipBrownlee.01
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
Twitter: @yashar
IG/Threads @yasharali
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Marty Baron @postbaron.bsky.social Journalist
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social Domestic Extremism Correspondent at NPR.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social Media reporter at The New York Times. Signal: benmullin.13
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev CIR, BBC, Bellingcat.
mwosint @plosint.com
Riley Mellen @rileymellen.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter for NYT. Let's chat: riley.mellen@nytimes.com, Signal, DMs, etc.
Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social Environmental open-source investigations, tracking drone warfare, research based advocacy for PAX, contributer Bellingcat.
Samuel Oakford (WaPo) @samueloakford.bsky.social @washingtonpost visual forensics | samuel.oakford@washpost.com | signal: 771-200-7508
Veli-Pekka Kivimäki @vpkivimaki.bsky.social Intelligence analyst by day, OSINT in academia, engineer at heart. Now: Finnish Security and Intelligence Service. Adjunct, Johns Hopkins. Past: Finnish Defence Forces, Bellingcat, Microsoft, Nokia.
John Marquee @johnmarquee.bsky.social Observer. OSINT/IMINT. Geolocation. GIS. Usual caveats.
Nixintel @nixintel.bsky.social Steven Harris | OSINT & Cyber Security Specialist | Investigator | Teach OSINT @SANS
Blog: www.nixintel.info
Natalia Antonova🇺🇸🇺🇦 @nataliaantonova.bsky.social Ukrainian-American. Writer. President, Concerned MILFs for America. Safer Dating Now creator. OSINT, but making it girly. Advocate for the glorious Normie Restoration ☀️
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382
Michael Cruickshank @cruickshank.bsky.social Geospatial analyst, OSINT investigator, and journalist. Investigating the intersection of climate resilience and human systems, and sometimes writing fiction. From 🇦🇺, now in 🇪🇺.
📍Berlin, Germany
https://www.michaelcruickshank.me/
Runa Sandvik @runasand.bsky.social Founder of Granitt, securing journalists and at-risk people around the world.
Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
Kelly Weill @kellyweill.bsky.social Writer in books and blogs. Author of "Off The Edge" (book) and MomLeft.com (newsletter). Bunch of other words at NYMag, The Daily Beast, Atlantic, your yearbook.
kellybweill at gmail
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Benjy Sarlin @benjysarlin.bsky.social
Editorial director, politics at Vox. Formerly: Washington Post, NBC News, Semafor. Email me at benjy.sarlin at voxmedia dot com.
Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social Writer for WIRED. Author of SANDWORM. Latest book, TRACERS IN THE DARK: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, out now. agreenberg@wired.com. Andy.01 on Signal.
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
Ursula Perano @ursulaperano.bsky.social ☆ Covering Congress and campaigns for The Daily Beast ☆ All handles @ursulaperano ☆ Cat mom ☆
Chris Krebs @thekrebscycle.bsky.social Aka @c_c_krebs over there
OSINT Techniques @osinttechniques.bsky.social https://www.forensicosint.com/
Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris Signal: shaneharris.64
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social writing @status.news, a nightly newsletter covering the Fourth Estate, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood.
subscribe: http://status.news/subscribe
inbox: oliver@status.news
Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social Senior Writer & Editor, The Contrarian
ContrarianNews.org
Portland, Oregon
Send tips via Signal: TimD.503
Stay connected: TimDickinson.co
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
AJ Vicens @ajvicens.bsky.social Cybersecurity correspondent at Reuters; former Mother Jones, CyberScoop. Will bore you with skateboarding, UFO lore or Denver Broncos minutiae on request. Signal: ajvicens.57, additional contact methods: https://tinyurl.com/47jc45h7
Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social Dad. Doofus. Data dork. Now Florida Man.
Coffee tastes absolutely horrible.
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social @Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social @bellingcat.com journalist etc focused on the transnational far right. i give trainings. i take pictures of stickers. Signal: michaelcolborne.01
Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
Samir @obretix.bsky.social geospatial IT – OSINT/IMINT
Jack Margolin @jackmargolin.bsky.social Personal acct. Conflict finance, guns, crime in data/PAI . I tweet on E. Europe, E. Africa, civil wars, and black metal.
Lachlan Markay @markay.bsky.social
Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social ProPublica reporter. Email tips/comments/complaints: justin@propublica.org
Signal: https://www.propublica.org/people/justin-elliott/
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social Senior national political reporter, NBC News
Capitol Hill, elections, Formula 1 🏛️🗳️🏁
Signal: sahilkapur.30
https://linktr.ee/sahilkapur
Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social Senior OSINT Investigator at @cen4infores.bsky.social. Opinions, hot takes, mistakes all my own. https://www.clippings.me/elisethomas
Julian E. Barnes @julianbarnes.bsky.social New York Times intelligence reporter.
Dutch_OsintGuy @dutchosintguy.bsky.social Dutch guy with Open Source Intelligence & Analysis skills • OSINT • Certified Instructor @SANSInstitute • SVP of Engineering& Chief Innovator @ shadowdragon.io
Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social I read a lot of court records because I like a good story. Won a Pulitzer a couple times. “A well-known PACER watcher” - Justice Department- M Meghan Conroy @mconroy.bsky.social Research Fellow @dfrlab.bsky.social. Former J6 Committee Investigator. Really only interested in extremism, social media, Taylor Swift, Love Island, and the epic highs and lows of high school football.
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship.
Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle
www.jakehanrahan.com
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News.
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org DDoSecrets is a 501c3 journalist non-profit devoted to publishing and archiving leaks and other data in the public interest.
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