Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social Guardian senior reporter, based in Los Angeles. Sam.Levin@theguardian [dot] com. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sam-levin
Anna Betts @annabetts.bsky.social reporter @GuardianUS • formerly @nytimes @buzzfeednews • writing also in @washingtonpost @verge @ellemagazine etc. •
International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) @iclmg-csilc.bsky.social We are a Canadian coalition fighting to defend rights in the context of the "war on terror" / La Coalition pour la surveillance internationale des libertés civiles lutte pour défendre les droits dans le contexte de la "guerre contre le terrorisme"
@afpeacebuilding.bsky.social @afpeacebuilding.bsky.social 
Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org CEPR, established in 1983, is an independent, non‐partisan, pan‐European non‐profit organization. Its mission is to enhance the quality of policy decisions through providing policy‐relevant research, based soundly in economic theory.
Access Now @accessnow.org We defend and extend the digital rights of people and communities at risk 🌎.
Arjun S Sethi @asethi.bsky.social Human Rights | American Hate: Survivors Speak Out | Teach @ Georgetown Law | Love futbol, animals & the ✨
https://thereimagining.substack.com/
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) @nrc-global.bsky.social We're a humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.
Official social media: http://nrc.no/social-media
Media: media@nrc.no /+47 90 56 23 29.
Islamic Relief UK @islamicreliefuk.bsky.social Since 1984 we have saved and transformed the lives of over 120 million people. #SavingLives
Islamic Relief @islamicrelief.bsky.social Changing lives and empowering communities since 1984. Last year our humanitarian and development work helped 17 million people in 40 countries.
Paul Carroll @pcbiker.bsky.social ~30 years in Govt and NGO roles working to make the world safer. Avid bike enthusiast, and backyard mechanic.
Zach Theiler @zachtheiler.bsky.social D.C.-based freelance journalist reporting on topics related to the environment, global development, and travel. Words in The New Humanitarian, Smithsonian Magazine, Context by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, and others.
zachtheiler.com
Katherine Tomaszewski @katie-tomski.bsky.social Legal briefs and hiking boots.
Colorado-based international lawyer with a human rights focus. Senior Legal Advisor at the Charity and Security Network.
Views are my own.
Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org The Global Think Tank.
carnegieendowment.org
Patrick Toomey @pct3.bsky.social Deputy Director w/ ACLU's National Security Project. Views here are my own.
Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com A magazine of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, founded in 1922. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/
Sign up for our newsletters here: http://foreignaffairs.com/newsletter
Ursala Knudsen-Latta @ursalakl.bsky.social Alaskan. Legislative Director for Peacebuilding Policy
@quakerlobby.bsky.social
Council on Foundations @councilfoundations.bsky.social The Council cultivates a community of diverse, skilled philanthropic professionals who lead with integrity, serve as ethical stewards, & advocate for progress.
American Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social AFSC works for a just, peaceful, and sustainable world free of violence, inequality, and oppression. We join with people and partners worldwide to meet urgent community needs, challenge injustice, and build peace.
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Open Society Foundations @open-society.bsky.social We work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people.
Our website: https://osf.to
Community guidelines: http://osf.to/CG
Zakat Foundation of America @zakatus.bsky.social We change the world by channeling the spirit of zakat into a global vision for giving 🌎 We are a humanitarian, 501 (c)(3) non-profit charity: www.zakat.org
Lara Friedman @larafriedmandc.bsky.social President, Foundation for Middle East Peace | www.fmep.org
Human Security Collective @hscollective.bsky.social Security requires people to be able to speak out and act freely and fearlessly. We help create the conditions that enable them to do so.
Mott Foundation @mottfoundation.bsky.social Private, grantmaking foundation funding in Civil Society, Youth Engagement, Environment and the Flint Area.
www.mott.org
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social Professor, UCLA Law; Director, http://SafeguardingDemocracyProject.org; 2020 CNN, 2024 NBC/MSNBC Election Law Analyst; electionlawblog.org
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
W.W.D.D.
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
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. 
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com Legal journalist and beachgoer. I write and talk about courts, the law, and the politics shaping them in a number of places. Working on a new thing.
Signal: cristianfarias.33
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: egoldman@gmail.com
Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social Associate Professor, Stanford Law School. Aussie struggling with °F & online speech stuff.
Jonathan Mayer @mayer.bsky.social Princeton prof and tech + law person. Previously at the Justice Department, Senate, FCC, Stanford, and CalDOJ. Views are solely my own.
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com
Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social Trademark, advertising, and more
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (he/him)
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
Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social Law prof at Yale, LPE Associate Justice, all things political economy, but not yr grandpas version.
Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
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) | Board of Directors @benandjerrys
www.norabenavidez.com
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/ 
Chinmayi Arun @chinmayiarun.bsky.social Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Camille François @camillefrancois.bsky.social Professor, Columbia University School of Int'l & Public Affairs. Tech Exec, previously w/ Graphika, Niantic, Google. I work on online trust, safety and innovation. I’ve been called "most optimistic person looking at the darkest corners of the Internet" :)
Ellen P. Goodman @ellgood.bsky.social Information law prof @ Rutgers. Philly, animal rights, algorithmic justice, book project on urban tech. Mom, wife, still daughter ..עברנו את פרעה- D Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social Cornell constitutional law professor and dilettante in many other fields. Vegan. Cyclist. Knicks fan. I mostly provide links to my work, especially my Verdict columns & blog posts (as well as those of my co-bloggers). I also occasionally post snark.
Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social No longer actively using this account. Find me here: https://tinyurl.com/5y7htysf
Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org Philosopher working on AI alignment, governance and adaptation
Lab: https://mintresearch.org
Self: https://sethlazar.org
Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
Katie Fallow @katiefallow.bsky.social Dep. Litigation Dir., Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Cat enthusiast.
RonNell Andersen Jones @randersenjones.bsky.social Law professor, First Amendment scholar, press freedom advocate. Yale Information Society Project.
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.
Katy Glenn Bass @katygb.bsky.social Research Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Vivian Schiller @vivianschiller.bsky.social 
Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social Law professor focusing on constitutional law, especially free speech, the separation of powers, and government secrecy. Friend to all dogs and cats. Champion procrastinator.
Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social Work at intersection of tech and democracy. Fmr Facebook. Newsletter writer: anchorchange.substack.com
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Carrie DeCell @carriedecell.bsky.social Senior Staff Attorney & Legislative Advisor, Knight First Amendment Institute (she/her)
Larry Siems @larrysiems.bsky.social Writer, chief of staff at Knight First Amendment Institute. knightcolumbia.org.
Ashley Belanger @ashleybelanger.bsky.social Cursed to love reading legal docs.
Senior policy reporter for Ars Technica
ashleybelanger.com
Signal: @ashleybelanger.77
Ramya Krishnan @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social Senior Staff Attorney, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Nadine Farid Johnson @nadinefj.bsky.social Policy Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University | Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Center for International Policy. Opinions mine.
Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game.
How Rights Went Wrong available at Bookshop.org (https://tinyurl.com/se32my4r), Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/3vbcfwa4), or a decent public library.
Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social Distinguished University Prof., Thompson G. Marsh Law Alumni Prof, Denver Law; Research & write about free speech, qualified immunity, & ⚾; pro bono litigator; diehard Cleveland Guardians fan (he/him). Posts are my personal opinions.
Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social Historian. Recovering Floridian. Charlottesville Now. 
Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social Constitutional law prof specializing in First Amendment, both speech & religion. Also repro
Likes: art,science, feminism, LGBTQ rights, CRT, separation of church & state
Things I've written: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=797431
Matt Peralta @matthewperalta.bsky.social Blog boy for lakersnation.com
Derek Bambauer @dbambauer.bsky.social Irving Cypen Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law. AI and alligators, with sides of patents, Internet censorship, and cybersecurity. Loves SCUBA diving, cats, Boston Red Sox, Legos, and cartoons.
Luke Thorburn @lukethorburn.com Algorithms ∩ Conflict • PhD candidate • King's College London • lukethorburn.com
Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me PhD student at the University of Washington in social computing + human-AI interaction @socialfutureslab.bsky.social. 🌐 kjfeng.me
Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen // Associate Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
Luca bellini @lucabellini.bsky.social 
Marlena Wisniak @marle.bsky.social Lawyer(ish) fighting for human rights & AI accountability @ECNL
Activist by day, Dancer by night. Feminist & Dreamer always 🏳️🌈🇵🇸
James Fletcher.PSD @jamesfletcherart.bsky.social Illustrator and extra-dimensional abomination that occasionally slips into this reality to drink Monster Zero Ultra and take long, uninterrupted mid-day naps
Portfolio>https://jcfletcher.artstation.com/
Currently Accepting Freelance work
Christina Koningisor @ckoningisor.bsky.social Law professor at UC Law SF (formerly UC Hastings)
Jacob Noti-Victor @jnvictor.bsky.social Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, writing on IP and law & tech, 🏳️🌈
Meredith Clark @meredithlclark.bsky.social Deputy Editor at Truthdig. I love movies, good gossip, and the Midwest. Looking for people who know what I mean when I call something “a Saturday afternoon WGN movie”
Erin Carroll @erincarrolledit.bsky.social Video Editor/Photographer, Weather/Military/News/Sunset enthusiast. Sort of Retired ~ Bayfield Ontario 🇨🇦
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci @chandrn.bsky.social Gobo. DashKite. Formerly @idpiumass.bsky.social, @knightcolumbia.org.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Erika Franklin Fowler @efranklinfowler.bsky.social Prof @ Wesleyan U; Co-Director of Wesleyan Media Project (@wesmediaproject.bsky.social & mediaproject.wesleyan.edu); policomm, polisci, public opinion & health policy scholar; Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health & Social Policy (commhsp.org)
Travis N. Ridout @tnridout.bsky.social Thomas S. Foley Professor, Washington State University; co-director of Wesleyan Media Project; political advertising, news media, political communication
Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/