Alisar Mustafa @alisarmustafa.bsky.social Author of the AI Policy Newsletter.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senate’s resident privacy hawk.
senatefinance.bsky.social
wydenpress.bsky.social
Sinead Bovell @sineadbovell.bsky.social Founder, WAYE
Futurist
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Tony Johnson @tjprime.bsky.social National Security Executive, Veteran & Civic Strategist | Where Public Service & Tech Innovation Meet Public Trust
UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity @cltcberkeley.bsky.social Helping society anticipate and address tomorrow's information security challenges, in order to amplify and extend the upside of the digital revolution.
Girls Who Code @girlswhocode.bsky.social
Adena Ishii @adenaishii.bsky.social Mayor of Berkeley, CA
@mrazeeq.bsky.social @mrazeeq.bsky.social Privacy & InfoSec Lawyer, Adjunct Law Professor & Researcher. Hobbyist. Human. Posts are my opinions.
All Tech Is Human @alltechishuman.bsky.social Our organization is committed to tackling thorny tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned w/ the public interest. Join us at AllTechIsHuman.org | Hello@AllTechIsHuman.org
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
Marissa Kumar Gerchick @mkgerchick.bsky.social She/her. Data Science Manager and Algorithmic Justice Specialist at ACLU. Personal account.
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Keith Porcaro @porca.ro Assistant Clinical Prof @ Duke Law. Law, tech, A2J, simulations, etc.
Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social Run @whotargets.me and am a Partner @jointogether.online. Used to play drums in Fridge. Live in Cork, from London.
Jake Snow @snowjake.bsky.social Tech, privacy, surveillance, ACLU NorCal. On Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@snowjake/. He/him. Views mine.
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
James Görgen @jgorgen.bsky.social Civil servant and digital agenda's practitioner.
Follow me on Notes from Digital Forest: http://florestadigital.tec.br
Felix Kartte @kartte.bsky.social Tech & Democracy I Mercator Senior Fellow I Special Adviser to the European Commission
Owen Davis @odavis.bsky.social Senior economist at the New York City Independent Budget Office. Interests: Aging, work, public policy, technology.
Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social Senior Research Associate, Research ICT Africa. Focusing on AI, Property, and Democratic Theory in the Polycrisis.
Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com Tech, facts, and carbonara.
mantzarlis.com
Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI
RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read
More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
Charles Mok @charlesmok.bsky.social Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator Research Scholar | ISOC Trustee | ICTTM Board | Tech for Good Asia | DSET Taiwan consultant | Ex Hong Kong IT Legislator, HKNet | Purdue ECE Grad & Advisory Board | https://charlesmok.substack.com/
Luke Thorburn @lukethorburn.com Algorithms ∩ Conflict • PhD candidate • King's College London • lukethorburn.com
Jutta Haider @juttahaider.bsky.social Social Study of Information & Environmental Communication | SSLIS, Swedish School of Library & Information Science | Posts in English, Swedish, German
Mark Belinsky @mbelinsky.bsky.social Building products for United Nations Development Programme. Son of refugees. Sometimes cycling across countries. Formerly CEO of Birdi (Acquired) & Digital Democracy.
Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social Microbiome science by training; climate policy by calling.
Professional anti-methanogen crusader.
I 分かる some 日本語.
Opinions my own. She/her. 🇺🇸. ☸️ (Jōdo Shinshū).
Owner of @cowburpsbot.bsky.social
Portfolio: https://tinyurl.com/katharinedickson
Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press MDNI❌ Journalist and academic person - legal beagle @ AVN.com; columnista @ ThePitchKC.com, thehumanist.com; Nerd, political 'scientist,' gamer, foodie... https://linktr.ee/michaelmcgradyjr bisexual af❤️.
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Joris van Hoboken @jvh.bsky.social (he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights.
@ivir-uva.bsky.social
Jordan Francis @jordfran.bsky.social Senior Policy Counsel @futureofprivacy.bsky.social | Nonresident Fellow cordellinstitute.wustl.edu | JD, UMN Law | CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP | Views expressed here are my own. Likes and reposts are not endorsements.
Jordi Calvet-Bademunt @jordicalbad.bsky.social Sr. Fellow, The Future of Free Speech @ Vanderbilt University | Fmr. OECD Official & Internet Society Fellow | Harvard MPA & College of Europe LLM
Reposts are not endorsements
Théophile Lenoir @theolenoir.bsky.social Social implications of AI - Sustainability & Media Ecosystems - ENS & Sciences Po
Gabby Miller @gabbymiller.bsky.social Tech reporter @ Politico
Covering AI + Congress
Jenni Olson @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social I'm @JenniOlsonSF everywhere | Senior Director, Social Media Safety at @glaad.bsky.social. LGBTQ film expert & online pioneer. Maker of films. Proprietor: Butch.org
jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social writer, organizer, a lot of hats • writing a book on data centers
opinions my own and also my dogs' (probably)
Justin Brookman @justinbrookman.bsky.social tech policy for Consumer Reports
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social Tech policy and litigation at the intersection of 1A, monetization, and competition. Currently at Tech Justice Law Project.
Lawyer sometimes.
Adrenaline junkie always.
Would rather be trail running.
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Chris Riley @mchrisriley.com "A blend of tech insights, dad humor, and existential musings... Bonus points if you can explain data portability over bourbon."
http://mchrisriley.com (... of course)
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
Katy Glenn Bass @katygb.bsky.social Research Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Prof. Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. @iajunwa.bsky.social Writer. Professor of Law. Director, A.I. and the Future of Work Program, Author of The Quantified Worker. Order here: https://a.co/d/bfdTUj5 #AI #Ethics #Law
#Chocophile
#Filmophile
#Igbophile
#Francophile (mostly)
#Bibliophile
#musicophile
#Afrofuturist
David Evan Harris @davidevanharris.com Chancellor's Public Scholar @UCBerkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Advisor/Fellow: @BrennanCenter.bsky.social, CA Initiative for Tech & Democracy, Int’l Computer Science Inst., Ctr. for Int’l Governance Innovation
https://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/harris-david/
David Morar @morar.bsky.social working the tech policy shift at the big corporation. formerly a decade+ in civil society. comedian. writer. fauxhipster. foreigner sans accent.
David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director, Nonprofit organization
Zamaan Qureshi @zamaan.bsky.social Campaigns/Policy @designitforus.bsky.social. Alum: @accountabletech.bsky.social, @ausis.bsky.social, Real Facebook Oversight Board, @markey.senate.gov, @casten.house.gov. YNWA | 🇺🇸🇬🇧 | he/him | opinions my own
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Chris Tenove @cjten.bsky.social Researcher and writer, media and politics. Acting director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia.
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
Alex Engler @alexengler.bsky.social Towards a healthier information ecosystem and a stronger democracy.
Executive Director @penn-mediated.bsky.social @upenn.edu
Alum: DemTech at NSC; AI Policy at OSTP; Brookings; Urban Institute; Taught at UChicago & Georgetown
Alex Heath @alexeheath.com writing sources.news, co-hosting the Access podcast
Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social EU law and tech policy, mostly musings on content moderation, platform governance, privacy, AI. Now: Co-Founder & Director @awo.agency. Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Then: EU Parliament. UN. Mozilla. PhD in EU law.- A Aditi Agrawal @aditimuses.bsky.social Technology Journalist l Words in Al Jazeera, The Hindu, The News Minute, The Print | ex-Hindustan Times, Newslaundry, Forbes India, MediaNama | Tips at aditi.muses@proton.me / @gmail.com | she/her
Vaishnavi @vaishnavi.bsky.social running www.vyanams.com to build safer online products for children and teens. occasionally use this account like 2008 emo twitter
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author.
Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.
Jeff Allen @jeffallen.bsky.social Now: Building smaller but better things @Integrity_Inst integrityinstitute.org
Physics: @LBNLphysics - @augerobs
Tech: @dotdashco - @Facebook - @DNC
Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com Public Policy at DuckDuckGo. Here to post about tech, privacy, and the law. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 www.joejerome.com
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Prateek Waghre @prateekwaghre.com Sometimes ambivalent/ignorant|
Digital Rights/Public Policy Researcher (technology)|
past: Exec. Director @internetfreedom.bsky.social, Research: Takshashila Institution, Prod. Mgr.: Akamai Technologies|
✍️: prateekwaghre.com, techpolicy.substack.com
Alissa Cooper @alissacooper.bsky.social Executive Director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute at Georgetown University- I Ravi Iyer @iyerland.bsky.social Managing Director USC Neely Center
Karina Montoya @pressgirlk.bsky.social 🌎 #journo researcher & program manager at @cmdgtech.bsky.social by @openmarkets.bsky.social 📝 media, digital markets, AI, public policy | 🗣ESP, FR, PT | https://linktr.ee/pressgirlk 📍Bay Area, CA |
Patrick LaForge @palafo.bsky.social “There is a true person of no rank who is always coming and going through the portals of your face.” — Linji Yixuan
Writer, reader, watcher, cyclist, walker, meditator, enjoyer of things, ex-nyt, he/him
http://palafo.org. Signal: Palafo.38
Jesús Alvarado @jesusalv.bsky.social tech news for marketplacetech.org
he/him | 🏳️🌈🇲🇽 | https://linktr.ee/jesusalv
Ramsha Jahangir @ramshajahangir.bsky.social Journalist covering tech & power. deputy editor @techpolicypress.bsky.social
ramshajahangir.com
Zander Arnao @zanderarnao.bsky.social arkansas raised, commanders fan, working on tech and competition policy at the knight-georgetown institute
Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. 💜 Philly, video games, and plants.
More at kendraalbert.com.
Ariana Aboulafia @arianaaboulafia.bsky.social disability rights activist.
tech policy’s biggest swiftie.
views my own. 🏳️🌈⚖️
Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social researching EU AI regulation @ duisburg essen university | blue haired feminist, FT reading socialist & other clichés | paris/berlin, she/sie/elle | free palestine 🍉
https://rachelgrfn.wordpress.com/publications/
John Perrino @johnperrino.com 🤓 Internet policy nerd
🌐 @InternetSociety.bsky.social "Senior Expert"
📚 Always learning
⚾ 🏛️ NY sports & DC life
Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social Civil Rights & Free Speech Attorney. Disinformation & AI Expert. Nonfiction Author.
Now: Senior Counsel @freepress & 2026 Bellagio Residency Fellow @rockefeller (writing a book)
Past: Free Expression @PENamerica, Litigation @ACLU
www.norabenavidez.com
Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social AI governance. Tech. Media. Political economy. Human rights. Director, Center for Journalism & Liberty cjl4news.bsky.social at Open Markets. Fellow at Brookings, CIGI, CDT, MRC. Former CPJ, UNESCO, NYT
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Richard Reisman @rreisman.bsky.social Sociotechnical network/systems thinker, visionary, inventor, pioneer | Author: @TechPolicyPress, FairPay | Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foundation for American Innovation
Yaël Eisenstat @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social Been called alarmist, Cassandra & “someone with the resume of a 70 yr old man”. Pro-dog & pro-democracy. Working on tech accountability to safeguard democracy in the digital age at Cybersafety Research Center (NYU).
Personal website: www.yaeleisenstat.com
Imran Ahmed @imranahmed.bsky.social CEO & Founder of Center for Countering Digital Hate
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Heidi Tworek @heiditworek.bsky.social Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
chris wiggins @chrishwiggins.bsky.social .edu: associate professor @columbia; adviser to the dean for AI strategy, Columbia College
.org: cofounder @hackNY;
.com: tba;
books: http://amzn.to/3J1tFnr
lokman tsui @lokman.org writer, (recovering) academic, amateur activist. teach at graduate institute of journalism, national taiwan university. fellow @citizenlab.ca.
he/him. writing a personal history of home and authoritarianism.
Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@RGoodLaw
Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org. Chaired Prof at NYU Law. Former Chaired Prof Harvard. Former Special Counsel Defense Dept.
https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me Tech policy, trust & safety. Writings collected at https://timbernard.me.
Brandi Geurkink @geurkink.bsky.social Executive Director of the Coalition for Independent Tech Research
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social Senior Advisor on Labor Markets at Access/Macro; Workforce Economist in Residence at Guild; Senior Fellow at the Burning Glass Institute. I tweet a lot about labor markets, macro, and (sorry) music! Tweets represent my own views.
Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social Humanist/atheist chaplain at places. Opinions mine not Harvard's/MIT's. NYT Bestselling & award-winning 📚 Good Without God + Tech Agnostic. Reclaiming my last name from evil. Reforming the tech religion. Took '25 off social media, now ~back.