Ana Hriscu 🟥 @anamhriscu.bsky.social PhD researcher - platform surveillance and power, rights (privacy, data protection) & justice @Tilburg Institute for Law, Tech, and Society;
Now Postdoc at iHub, Radboud University working on law and sphere transgressions
Cristiana Santos @cristianasantos.bsky.social Platform power & data rights
Empirical legal studies
Utrecht University
Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group @lsts-vub.bsky.social We are an interdisciplinary Research Group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). https://lsts.research.vub.be/
Julia Krämer @juliakraemer.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Erasmus University Rotterdam | Empirical Legal Studies, Data Protection Law & App Store Governance ⚖️📊⚡️
David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director, Nonprofit organization
Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social Opinions are my own // comms @ aclu
https://linktr.ee/gbbranstetter
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
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
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
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and Soul, Technicolor
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
Brennan Center @brennancenter.org We work to build a United States that is democratic, just, and free — for all. Visit BrennanCenter.org.
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
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
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
Meredith Rose @mrose.ink Grumpy feminist lawyer. Writer with ADHD. Senior Policy Counsel, @publicknowledge.bsky.social . Copyright, tech, music, AI, fandom. I talk about stuff.
Negate the gods -- raise rocks.
She/her 🏳️🌈
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.
https://knightcolumbia.org/
Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org Simple country tech law professor, multidisciplinary dilettante, “idea generator.” Crocs, fizzy water, ska. Someone is wrong on the Internet and it’s probably me. No legal or good advice; opinions my own, bad. On posting hiatus.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social sci-fi goth civil rights free speech tech law /
now: senior counsel @freepress & @bellagio resident working on my first book /
past: free expression @PENamerica, litigation @ACLU
www.norabenavidez.com
Alex Abdo @alexabdo.bsky.social Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (he/him)
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Megan Squire @megansquire.bsky.social Cyber threat intelligence, investigations. CompSci PhD. Currently at F-Secure. Former @elonuniversity @splcenter
onekade @onekade.bsky.social Civil rights and liberties advocate, appreciator of nice things like democracy and the Boston Celtics. Pro-immigrant. Anti-fascist. Opinions mine.
Albert Fox Cahn 🦊 @foxcahn.bsky.social @STOPSpyingNY founder; @CarrCenter @yaleisp, @ashoka, & @TEDTalks fellow; 100+ bylines in NYTimes, Guardian, Wired, etc. Was @WeilGotshal & @Harvard_Law. He/him
Brandi Collins-Dexter @brandicd.bsky.social Author of Black Skinhead: Reflections in Blackness & Our Political Future. Cat mom (Ella & Satchel). Researcher. Techno optimist in an antitrust goth phase. Chicago is my ❤️, Baltimore is my 🏡.
https://linktr.ee/BrandingBrandi
Chris Lewis @chrisjlewis.bsky.social Tech policy advocate, President/CEO at @publicknowledge.bsky.social, Fmr Alexandria City School Board member, DC sports fanatic, & donut connoisseur.
amac @amac0.bsky.social Lawyer, coder, baker.
Govt (Deputy US CTO for Obama and Biden), non-profit (Trust & Safety Professional Assn & Foundation, Data & Society, Public.resource), startup person (Google, Twitter).
Curious tinkerer.
@amac on the other thing.
Now in London.
Harlan Yu @harlanyu.bsky.social Co-founder, Upturn. he/him.
Matthew Lane @mattlane.bsky.social Florida Man living in DC. Opinions are my own.
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
Lori McGlinchey @macvie.bsky.social Technology+Society - Ford Foundation
genug shoyn
Nick Garcia @nickgarcia.bsky.social 🤖 & ⚖️ | 🕹️ & 🎲 | DC & 🗽
Currently @ Public Knowledge
Laura Edelson @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Co-Director, C4D
Formerly: Chief Technologist, DoJ Antitrust Division, DOJ Civil Rights Division
Harold Feld @haroldfeld.bsky.social
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
ARTICLE 19 Law and Policy @article19law.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and information through legal & policy reforms. Everywhere
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.
bergmayer @bergmayer.net www.bergmayer.net
Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social Public Knowledge promotes an open internet, accessible communications tools, and balanced copyright laws. Reposts do not necessarily indicate endorsement.
Sign up for our newsletter here: publicknowledge.org/subscribe
Anna Lenhart @annalenhart.bsky.social Tech Policy (University of Maryland & George Washington). data scientist. anti-monopolist. consumer advocate. former hill staffer.
Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social Older but no wiser on a new social platform than the old ones. Professionally caring about the internet, doing tech policy at @americanprogress.bsky.social & @capaction.bsky.social but a poster first, always, and forever. Opinions are…you know the drill.
Craig Aaron @notaaroncraig.bsky.social Co-CEO of *The Real* Free Press and Free Press Action and guy with two first names
freepress.net
(No, not *The* Bari Weiss one. We love journalism, democracy and public media!)
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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)
Check My Ads @checkmyads.org We're the independent digital advertising watchdog. We are building a transparent and fair digital advertising market.
Hayley Tsukayama @htsuka.bsky.social Dir. of State Affairs at EFF, CIPP/US, WaPo alum, Minnesotan forever. Respectfully declines to fight with you. Views mine. she/her
Sarah Roth-Gaudette @srgaudette.bsky.social ED @fightfortheftr.bsky.social, organizer forever, can be the order muppet to your chaos muppet
Ian Vandewalker @ianvan.bsky.social Policy advocacy and research on money in politics and disinformation. Senior Counsel & Manager, Brennan Center.
Imran Ahmed @imranahmed.bsky.social CEO & Founder of Center for Countering Digital Hate
Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com International nonprofit protecting human rights online by tackling the spread of online harms. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Media: media@counterhate.com
Charlotte Slaiman @charlotteswwweb.bsky.social
Kate Ruane @kateruane.bsky.social Free expression advocate. Whiskey drinker. Friend of dogs. Views my own
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
Jessica J. González @jgo4justice.bsky.social Co-CEO of @FreePress.bsky.social. Board member @AmericasVoice.bsky.social & Latino Media Collaborative. Los Angeles-based chingona lawyer.
sorelle @friedler.net CS prof at Haverford, Chair @acm.org U.S. tech policy, @brookings.edu nonres Senior Fellow, former White House OSTP tech policy, co-author AI Bill of Rights, research on AI and society, @facct.bsky.social co-founder
formerly @kdphd 🐦
sorelle.friedler.net
Steven Renderos @stevenrenderos.bsky.social Salvadoreño 🇸🇻 ED at Media Justice. Co-host of Bring Receipts. Doyers fan.- Y Yosef Getachew @yosefg.bsky.social Working at the intersection of tech, democracy, and civil rights. Currently: Reset.Tech. Formerly: Common Cause, Public Knowledge. Posts are my own.
Matt Scherer @matthewus.bsky.social Advocate and researcher focused on fighting corporate power and building workers’ technology rights. Fellow at OMI. Posts reflect my own views.
@bmljr.bsky.social @bmljr.bsky.social
Evan Feeney @evanfeeney.bsky.social Tech accountability, racial justice, fighting surveillance capitalism, D&D nerd, ultimate player 💖💜💙 Corporate Engagement @ Consumer Reports. opinions my own.
Lacy Crawford Jr @lacycrawfordjr.bsky.social Communications and Partner at Democracy Partners, Views expressed are my own.
Alex Ault @aultwrites.bsky.social Policy Counsel @ The Lawyers’ Committee. Voting/Democracy/Privacy and probably Survivor.
JEMc @jasminemcnealy.com Future somebody | Data, Tech, Law, Power | Wake up, oh sleeper...
Lorenzo @dallacorte.bsky.social Data protection and cybersecurity law
Pieter Haeck @pieterhaeck.bsky.social Senior technology reporter @POLITICO.eu
Guénaël @gnppn.fr Journaliste Médias chez Contexte. Net-goinfre.
https://gnppn.fr
Alderik @alderik.eurosky.social A running junkie in the morning, a platform regulation nerd during daytime, and a karaoke fanatic by night.
Disclaimer: only personal views & reposts are not endorsements
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Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese.eurosky.social 🇪🇺🌻 Member of EU Parliament @die-gruenen | she/her
Digital, Democracy, Disinformation
Felix Kartte @kartte.bsky.social Tech & Democracy I Mercator Senior Fellow I Special Adviser to the European Commission
Nathalie A. Smuha @nathaliesmuha.bsky.social Legal scholar & Philosopher. Assistant Professor of Law @UofT Law. Author of 'Algorithmic Rule By Law' (CUP, 2025). Previously at EU Commission's AI HLEG, Council of Europe's CAI, KU Leuven & NYU Law. UChicago alum.
Andreas Schwab @aschwab.bsky.social Politician #MEP @europeanparliament @eppgroup @cdu_csu_ep coordinator for @ep_singlemarket #digital #competition #EUswitzerland
📍Freiburg🇩🇪 / Brüssel 🇪🇺
Sam Clark @sgclark92.bsky.social Covering cybersecurity for Politico in Brussels. Tips/gossip/curry house recommendations to sclark@politico.eu.
Also (very) amateur runner, cyclist and squash player.
Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social Associate prof in private law & tech (Utrecht University) & PI ERC Research Stg HUMANads '22-'27 @goanta@someone.elses.computer
Zach Meyers @zach-meyers.bsky.social Director of Research, Centre on Regulation in Europe; Associate Fellow, Centre for European Reform. Working on competition & industrial policy, tech regulation, network industries.
Get in touch: (firstname).(lastname)@cerre.eu 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺 He/him.
Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social Public interest technologist | Privacy, PETs, algorithmic decision making, films, books, more | https://krisshrishak.de | KrisShrishak@eupolicy.social
DSA Observatory @dsaobservatory.bsky.social The Digital Services Act (DSA) Observatory is a project run by the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. See more of our work and information about our expert workshops and seminars at dsa-observatory.eu
Nicolas Moës @nicolasmoes.bsky.social Aligning AI through better governance | Executive Director at The Future Society
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasmoes
Edie Hancock @edithhancock.bsky.social Writing about EU competition, trade and tech policy for the Wall Street Journal and/or Dow Jones. Send tips, invitations & affirmations to Edith.hancock@wsj.com
Christoph Busch @christophbusch.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Osnabrück & Affiliated Fellow, Yale Information Society Project. Digital markets, platform regulation, consumer law.
Nick Botton @nickbotton.bsky.social Public policy at @awoagency.bsky.social working on adtech, privacy, platform regulation, open source, AI and child safety
Opinions my own. Like = interesting.
René Repasi @repasi.bsky.social Ehemann und Papa | Unionsbürger und Sozialdemokrat | Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments (@europarl.europa.eu) und Rechtsprofessor (Erasmus Universität Rotterdam).
„Gerade wer das Bewahrenswerte bewahren will, muss verändern, was der Erneuerung bedarf.“
Kim van Sparrentak @kimvsparrentak.bsky.social Member of the European Parliament
@groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social
@greens-efa.eu
Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social https://competitionwave.blogspot.com/ (daily reading list and more)
Cristina Caffarra @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social Economist, antitrust expert, econ/tech policy commentator, keynote speaker, convener CEPR Competition RPN, EscapeForward podcaster and conference host/ producer, Hon.Prof. UCL, DG Grow Fellow 2026, founder/lead EuroStack Industry Initiative
Jillian Deutsch @deutschjill.bsky.social untangling the interwebs at bloomberg in europe. cat mom, coffee addict, not german.
Cynthia Kroet @cynthiakroet.bsky.social Chief Trade Correspondent at MLex, get in touch kroet (at) mlex.com - NL in Brussels
@awo.agency @awo.agency
Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House | Europe, geoeconomics of tech, European security | Currently ✍️ a book on subsea cables (Polity '26) | Amsterdammer in London 🇪🇺
Laureline Lemoine @laureline.eurosky.social Digital rights, law and policy @ AWO, based in Brussels
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Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law
Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨
Also: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
Théophane Hartmann @theophane.euractiv.com 🇪🇺 tech journalist at @Euractiv.com
Opinions mine only.
Posts might be in 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇧🇷
Mathieu Pollet @mathieupollet.bsky.social Technology reporter at @POLITICO.eu ☁️📶📺🛰️
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