Cynthia S. Kao @datphotogurl.bsky.social Licensed Clinical Social Worker. 2x Tech founder, Veteran, Operation Code Executive Director (https://operationcode.org/), Born a Canuck 🇨🇦, raised a Yank 🇺🇸. I write about human behavior, tech, and social constructs of meaning. Posts are my own.
Harry Batchelor @babbers.bsky.social 23, He/Him, first class degree in criminology and a first class degree in cyber crime and counter terrorism. Looking for work that will make a difference.
Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social Dr in glaciology and expert mapper of coastal topography at a Cooperative Research Institute. An organizer for disability rights in science, which mostly involves yelling at agencies. Science is the easier part of my work. #T1D
Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
Gene Park @gene.meme Washington Post culture critic | Pacific Roots | DC Rock
Carlos Diaz Ruiz @carlosdiazruiz.com Associate Professor at Hanken in Finland. I write about the consumer culture and advertising markets that allow disinformation to thrive on social media.
Author of the book "Market-Oriented Disinformation Research."
https://www.carlosdiazruiz.com
Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social Senior digital investigation journalist covering online mis- and disinformation for AFP • Formerly with PolitiFact and the Raleigh News & Observer • Duke alum • “The internet folks” - Stephen Colbert
https://factcheck.afp.com/Bill-MCCARTHY
Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
#BillsMafia
Asbjørn Dyrendal @asbjorndyrendal.bsky.social Conspiracy beliefs, apocalypticism, extremism, new religious movements. Skeptical Norwegian. Professor, Religionswissenschaft.
Mitsuwo @3wochan.bsky.social Anti-Online violence/former 5chan Staff/non-expert QAnon Researcher/Anti-Fascism/Anti-Nazis/Anti-KKK. Born in Japan🇯🇵, currently living in Germany 🇩🇪
https://open.substack.com/pub/mitsuwo?r=dzub5&utm_medium=ios
DaemonSky @dsky.bsky.social Biosecurity, outbreaks, apocalypses, language & conspiracy. Former Fed. Intellectual magpie. Dogs, SciFi, nerdery. Views my own.
Kaleigh Rogers @kaleighrogers.bsky.social Reporter focused on elections, polls, and dabbling in science stories. Past @nytimes @fivethirtyeight et al.
🇨🇦 in 🇺🇲
Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark.
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
Julia Smirnova @jsmirnova.bsky.social Senior researcher for @cemas.io. Disinfo, extremism, technology. Previously, @isdglobal and journalist writing for @spiegel, @zeit, @welt. Alumna @warstudies
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Johanna @discomedusae.bsky.social Hi!
I'm a feminist, a science-based nurse and a QAnon casualty. I use sarcasm when sarcasm is needed ☺️
📍Sweden
Chris Dehghanpoor @ckd.sh OSINT reporter, Washington Post investigations • @chrisd9r on twitter • https://ckd.sh
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social Journalist and Researcher | Reporting and Research on the U.S. Radical Right | Publisher of Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social | Subscribe: https://www.radicalreports.org | Support My Work: https://linktr.ee/reportbywilson
The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social aka the Rabbit Hole Cartographer.
Mapping the folklore and history of the borderland sciences.
Conspiracism Taxonomist.
I study horrible people who believe weird things.
patreon.com/QuacksAnonymous
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Media Matters, focusing on social media misinformation, disinformation, & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to akaplan@mediamatters.org.
Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social I research and create educational videos about misinformation, propaganda, climate change, and sometimes (unfortunately) AI
Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social Conspiracy theory journalist, expert witness, TPM contributor, Eaton Fire survivor. Wrote JEWISH SPACE LASERS, THE STORM IS UPON US, and ZERO CONTAINMENT (Fall 2027). rothschildmd@protonmail.com for tips, interviews, collaborations. Not A Rothschild.
Travis View @travisview.bsky.social Father. Husband. Tap water goblin. QAnon Anonymous podcast host.
QAnon, conspiracy theories, disinfo, and other signs of the dystopia.
Email: travis @ Qanonanonymous.com
Democracy Notes Perspectives @democracy-notes.bsky.social Perspectives and analysis for (and from) the US democracy space.
https://democracynotesperspectives.substack.com/
Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @ipppriataru.bsky.social, Assoc Prof @richmondunildn.bsky.social, & Gbl Far Right Co-Editor @manchesterup.bsky.social, researching Far-Right Movements and CVE Responses. https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/william-allchorn
IAPSS @iapss.bsky.social The International Academic Partnerships for Science and Security (IAPSS)🌐
https://crestresearch.ac.uk/iapss/
CREST @crest-research.bsky.social The Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) is the UK’s hub for behavioural and social science research into security threats. https://crestresearch.ac.uk/
NCITE @ncite.bsky.social The National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center is a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence based at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
RAND @rand.org We arm leaders with the information they need to tackle the toughest policy problems. Nonprofit, nonpartisan. 📥 Get our newsletter: https://bit.ly/4haSUVK
www.rand.org
ICSR @icsr.bsky.social 
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. 
Accelerationism Research Consortium @arcglobal.bsky.social ARC is dedicated to a collaborative, empirical approach to understanding and addressing the threat of accelerationism to democratic societies. 
Revontulet Intelligence @revontuletintel.bsky.social Revontulet is the counterterrorism
company that is dedicated to preventing terrorism and keeping communities safe.
Find out more at www.revontulet.co
Counter Terrorism Policing @terrorismpolice.bsky.social Account occupied to prevent misuse. Do not report crime here.
Report at http://gov.uk/ACT, or 999 in an emergency
Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social Resisting Authoritarianism. Protecting Democracy. Preserving Human Rights. globalextremism.org
Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org Catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements.
splcenter.org
SeditionHunters @seditionhunters.bsky.social • We spent 4 years researching those that stormed the Capitol on Jan6, 2021, collecting and archiving data and we continuing monitoring their activities.
We are also monitoring the rise of extremism in the US
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
UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social Understanding the past, present and future of science and tech. Subscribe to our newsletter - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-newsletter
MIT Technology Review DE @technologyreview.de News aus Wissenschaft und Technik 🔬
http://t3n.de/impressum | http://t3n.de/datenschutz
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) counters, monitors, and exposes far-right hate movements, groups, and figures. Fully independent.
www.antihate.ca | info@antihate.ca
Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rics20 
Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social 🎓 School of Media and Communication | We cannot fully understand modern societies without understanding media and communication | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media | linkedin.com/company/school-of-media-and-communication🎓
Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org bringing you religion, culture, and politics since 2008
* award-winning
* independent
* non-profit
* justice-minded
* irreverent
RD is a @praeyesright.bsky.social publication
want to write for RD? check out https://religiondispatches.org/submissions/
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy.
A project of People For the American Way.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
Kristen @kristenengel.bsky.social Social computing PhD candidate @ UW. I study user engagement with interventions, prosocial behavior, and antisocial content across online platforms.
www.kristenengel.com
Peter Keizer @peterkeizer.bsky.social onderzoeksjournalist (OSINT)
@Pointer (KRO-NCRV)
Sara A. @coolfacejane.bsky.social 
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Reem Ahmed @reemahmed.bsky.social Researcher IFSH | PhD Candidate Uni Hamburg | Researching (counter-)terrorism, extremism, platform regulation | https://ifsh.de/en/staff/ahmed 
Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Virginia Tech researching the translation of 4chan culture to American politics. MILR from Cornell. LGBTQ+ Ally. Former weeb. Militant defender of Democracy. The collapse of democratic rule is the sin of every citizen! 🀄️
Byline: MSNBC
Blyth Crawford @blythcrawford.bsky.social Views = mine. She/her
Darja Wischerath @darja.bsky.social Postdoc @ University of Bath | Conspiracy theories, radicalisation, violent extremism and the like
Avid hiker & coffee drinker
Masks save lives
She/They
Benjamin V. Allison @benvallison.bsky.social Christian. History PhD Candidate at UT-Austin. US relations w MENA and Russia since 1945. Nat sec, terries/insurgency, proxy war. My opinions. Spitballer.
Dr. Salah Ben Hammou @salahbhpolisci.bsky.social Postdoctoral Associate for the Center of the Middle East at Rice University's Baker Institute of Public Policy.
Former USIP Peace Scholar.
Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida.
www.salahbenhammou.com
Rim-Sarah Alouane, Ph.D. @rim-sarah.eurosky.social Ph.D. in Public Law | Researcher in Constitutional Law, Discrimination, Human Rights, Religious Freedom & Civil Liberties in France, Europe, & North America | Open Science| Opinions my own | Team Chocolatine.
Nihad Aboud نهاد عبود @nihadaboud.bsky.social Limbo | PhD in Government | Senior Research Officer @ Essex Law School | Conflict & terrorism | Strategies & behaviors of militant groups | Previously ETH & AUC
بين غربتك ف ديار أهلك… و غربتك ف بلاد الله
——
https://sites.google.com/view/n-aboud
Μ (Μέλι) @malikacoexist.bsky.social Researching online extremist communities (Islamic State, AQ, white supremacy) | @GNET_research contributor
Shea Minter @minter.bsky.social Pittsburgh resident and enthusiast, PhD Candidate at Georgetown University studying the racist far right in elections and political violence. Also sports.
Email me at sheaminter@proton.me
Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social Philosophy PhD student and contributing editor at The UnPopulist. I work on the role of social and political epistemology in democratic political theory.
Read my public philosophy here: https://discoursemachine.beehiiv.com/
Jonathan Collins @joncollins.bsky.social PhD candidate at Charles & Leiden University researching and lecturing on the Far-Right. Netnography and everything digital culture. VOX-Pol Next Gen Network
#extremism #alt-tech #far-right #conspiracies #socialmedia
Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social Extremism, conspiracy theories, housing. Recovering housing attorney.
Vinzenz Waldmüller @waldmuell.bsky.social Politikwissenschaftler | Uni Jena | Rechtsextremismus, politische Einstellungen, demokratische Normen |
https://www.komrex.uni-jena.de/3388/vinzenz-waldmueller
Napoleon Bonarpant @palehorsebeholder.bsky.social Scalawag
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Qualified to talk about a limited number of things
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
George O. Wood @gwood.dev 🧑💻 Computer Scientist
🎓 PhD Candidate @ ncl.ac.uk
🚑 First Responder
📷 Photographer #LongLiveFilm
🏳️🌈 Be kind, always.
🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini
🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
🪪 he/him/his
🗣️ /ʤɔːʤ wʊd/
🔗 gwood.dev
— Unapologetic human user of em dashes.
💭 All opinions are my own.
Eyal Hanfling @eyalhanfling.com democracy / technology research
eyalhanfling.com | 📍brooklyn, ny
Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social Tech & Geopolitics & Business & EMEA. Director, Middle East Institute. Fellow @ FPRI & Third Way & Trilateral Commission. Charts & Maps. Book: West Asia (10/2025)
Nahla Bendefaa | نهلة @nahlab.bsky.social She/هي
Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Oregon
Kent State University MA '19 | Al Akhawayn University BA '16
Studying nation-branding narrative construction in digital foodscapes
Digital Content Strategist & Project Management Whiz
Asana Partner
Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social Feminist academic and ECR. Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Manchester, UK. Author of Feminist Fandom (2024). Interested in youth, gender, digital/pop culture, platforms + anti/feminisms. She/her. https://linktr.ee/brionyhannell
Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com Social media networks and social norms, freshly minted PhD from Brussels University (VUB). Belgian living in Barcelona, internet night crawler, STS
Emelia Hughes @emeliamay.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Notre Dame studying online communities & social media ✨ previously at @uwischool.bsky.social, @socialfutureslab.bsky.social, & UW CIP and intern with Adobe Research
Dr. Will X. Uly @wellactually.bsky.social rhetoric sun. media rising. gender moon. assistant professor of communication studies, recovering marketer, and award-winning drag king. thinking about neoliberalism & gender performance in consumer culture. they/them.
the views expressed here are my own.
Scott J Roberts @sroberts.io Cyber Threat, NatSec, Analytic Tradecraft | Instructor of Cybersecurity @ USU Data Analytics & Information Systems | Masters Student @ USU Center for Anticipatory Intelligence | Developer, Analyst, Author
Karmvir Padda @karmvirpadda.bsky.social #FirstGen PhD Candidate @UWaterloo | 2021 SSHRC_CRSH (CGS) Doctoral Scholar | Researching radicalization & ideologically motivated violent extremism, computational social science
Sofia Koller @sofiako.bsky.social Working on CVE & CT at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Germany | focus on 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 & (returning) foreign fighters | former DGAP | King's College London alumna
Carlotta Sallach @carlottasallach.bsky.social PhDing in International Relations @weareceu.bsky.social | Alumna @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social | Interested in all things feminist security studies & socio-legal studies | member of @incourt.bsky.social
Fredrik Bjerknes @fredrikbjerknes.bsky.social PhD in investigative journalism (boundaries, epistemologies and visibilities) / Currently working at the Center for Investigative Journalism in Norway (SUJO) at the University of Bergen.
Emily Godwin @emilygodwin.bsky.social Senior Research Associate @ University of Bristol Business School | PhD student @ University of Bath | Social scientist | Researching all things digital culture, specifically conspiracy theories
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/emily-godwin
Dessi Bocheva @dessibocheva.bsky.social PhD student, University of Bath | Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour | Identity, online communities, radicalisation, and misinformation
loves a good book
Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic @sandrabisk.bsky.social Researching and teaching about gender, security, and institutional change
Donna ☕📚🌸 @ctpuzzlepieces.bsky.social 🎓Security Ph.D. Hostage AGAA📚 Extremism, VE, Terrorism #NatSec Pracademic MA#Female extremism. 📚 | Interested in iconography, lexicons, 'patriots', sovereigns, apocalypticism, accelerationalism🚓
Jill Moria @jillem.bsky.social Perpetually bruised boulderer. She/They
Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social PhD candidate in Political Science at CU Boulder. Biker, climber, runner, skier, homebrewer, writer, coder.
email: alex [dot] newhouse [at] colorado [dot] edu
Anna Ressman @annaressman.bsky.social privacy, security, doom.
Header image is one of my photos of the old Chicago Sun-Times building being dismantled. She/her. Antiracist.
Rural Anarchy @ruralanarchy.bsky.social 🧱 💥
Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social Exvangelical, atheist, DiY religious studies, cult studies, failed-apocalypse cringe-posting, weird shit, counter-extremism
School of Making Poor Life Choices
Only Slightly Doomed
She/They/bad at gender
My apologies for continuing to be relevant 
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
co-founder @honeybadger.io
⎯
software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
The Last Peter Smith @petersmith.bsky.social Freelance journalist & researcher | Words in Militant Wire, Lawfare, CTC Sentinel, EurasiaNet, antihate.ca & more | Interested in conflict, technology and underground movements | People's First Runner Up