Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social I write the Guardian’s Politics Live blog 
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Sam Coates @samcoatessky.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor, Sky News
Co-host Politics at Jack and Sam’s Podcast
Nigel Deakin @nigeldeakin.bsky.social Lives in Cambridge. Rides a bike. Sometimes rides it a long way.
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Husband, father and Mayor of the greatest city in the world. He/Him.
Ailantd Sikowsky @ailantd.com Illustration, RT 3D, designer and game developer.
Ancient History, Sci-Fi and Kubrick's 2001.
I have a yellow mechanical pencil.
All rights reserved.
🔻Spain
https://linktr.ee/Ailantd
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani
Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com Exoneree, host of Hard Knox podcast, author of Free: My Search for Meaning. One woman comedy show, Cartwheel, at the Edinburgh Fringe Aug 7-17.
www.amandaknox.substack.com
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
The Map Center @mapcenter.com Andrew Middleton
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
A 'Peddler of Wheres' and owner of the oldest map store on the East Coast, The Map Center in Pawtucket RI. It's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
Dan Bloom @danbloom1.bsky.social U.K. political editor for POLITICO
https://www.politico.eu/staff/dan-bloom/
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Brent Lee @brentlee.bsky.social Host / Producer of Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast. Former conspiracist turned debunker. Now that I debunk conspiracy theories, I have become an actual conspiracy theory. True story.
Nelly @nellyp.checkfirst.network Co-founder, COO @checkfirst.network - Information integrity, FIMI, platforms accountability and so on.
also Team ObSINT @obsint.eu 🔍
Hebe Campbell @hebecampbell.bsky.social Video Journalist and Presenter at The Independent. Covering disinformation/social media.
Olga Robinson @olgar.bsky.social Assistant Editor, BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring 
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
https://authory.com/AmandaMoore
https://www.turtlediaries.net/
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
Allison Neitzel @alineitzelmd.bsky.social whowhatwhy.org/author/allison-neitzel/
Cecilie Traberg, PhD @cecilietraberg.bsky.social Cambridge-trained psychologist
AI, influence & digital threats
Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School
Mum x 3, advocating for a parent-friendly academia
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social Columnist @TheDailyBeast, creator of the Russian Media Monitor, sanctioned by Russia.
I watch Russian state TV, so you don't have to.
Author of a book "In Their Own Words: How Russian Propagandists Reveal Putin’s Intentions."
makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social writing about politics + the internet
formerly: @wired.com, @theverge.com
DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32
FAQ, Instagram, + everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Karma2023 @karma2023.bsky.social Michael Protzman aka -48 cult researcher.
Conspiracy theories/QAnon researcher.
Dr. Christine Sarteschi, LCSW @drsarteschi.bsky.social Full Professor of SW & Criminology | Extreme violence researcher. Books about #Sovereigncitizens | Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/drsarteschi | Opinions own & RPs not endorsements
Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social I research and create educational videos about misinformation, propaganda, climate change, and sometimes (unfortunately) AI
Lea Frühwirth @leafruehwirth.bsky.social All things digital discourse and its impact on society and politics | Disinformation & Propaganda | Senior Researcher @ CeMAS
Noelle Cook @noellecook.com Author of THE CONSPIRACISTS: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging (Broadleaf Books, 2026) | Associate Producer + Researcher, THE CONSPIRACISTS (2024) noellecook.com
https://linktr.ee/NoelleCook
Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca Information Ecologist exploring the information environment | Senior Fellow at @carnegieendowment.org and Director of @ieproject.bsky.social | PhD from KCL War Studies | Visiting Researcher @uniofbath.bsky.social | Author of The Information Animal 🇨🇦
Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social Technology & emerging threats | Research Fellow, Atlantic Council. Views my own. 🇺🇦
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (BC)Archaeologist & PhD candidate: Brother XII & the Aquarian Foundation | archaeology of conspirituality | landscape archaeology | pseudoarchaeology | far-right pseudo/archaeology (she/her)
https://bonesstonesandbooks.com/publication
Sarah Thust @timetodiscover.bsky.social Journalistin bei correctiv.org/faktencheck | Porträt von Ivo Mayr
Hier privat mit den Themen: Faktencheck, Osint, Medienkompetenz, Telegram, Kambodscha und Frankreich
Julia Smirnova @jsmirnova.bsky.social Senior researcher for @cemas.io. Disinfo, extremism, technology. Previously, @isdglobal and journalist writing for @spiegel, @zeit, @welt. Alumna @warstudies
Aoife Gallagher @aoifegall.bsky.social Senior analyst at @isdglobal.
Previously, Investigations @ Storyful.
Extremism, conspiracy theories, mis/disinfo
Author of Web Of Lies: The Lure and Danger of Conspiracy Theories.
https://www.dubraybooks.ie/product/web-of-lies-9780717195121
🇮🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Katherine Denkinson @kdenkwrites.com UK-based Investigative Journalist & OSINT bod.
Author of Incel:The Weaponisation of Misogyny (out now with Aurora Metro Books)
Email: katherinedenkinson@protonmail.com
Website: www.KDenkWrites.com
Tessa Knight @awildknight.bsky.social Researching disinformation for DFRLab | She/her | DMs usually open | tessaknight132@protonmail.com
Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@fatecheckpod
Always folklore, fact checking, and disinfo. Covering climate. Sometimes lifestyle/shopping. Sea witch, widow, Lokean 💖 and proud parent 🏳🌈 May or may not be notable 🧿
Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social Medical Oncologist/Hematologist
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Public health
Climate activist
Universal Health Care Advocate
Dr Susan Oliver (PhD) @drsusanoliver.bsky.social Scientist who is passionate about correcting misinformation
https://www.youtube.com/backtothescience
Maria Giovanna Sessa @netosessa.bsky.social Research Manager @disinfo.eu • GBD, FIMI & DSA are some of my favorite acronyms • Based in Milan, but traveling often 🛸✨
linktr.ee/netosessa
Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social PhD in Sociology of Religion, researcher focusing on Satanic moral panic. Interested in all things folklore, myth, moral panic and the occult. Tutor in Religious Studies & History of Science at the University of Leeds
Diana Wallis @dianapwallis.bsky.social A european in Yorkshire; a lawyer & I have been a politician (european) now indulging a love of history mainly medieval with a focus on the disputes of York’s 15th century Merchant Adventurers.
@tinfoiltales-au.bsky.social @tinfoiltales-au.bsky.social A podcast about anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, pseudolaw & politics….with an Australian bent
Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social Social psychologist concerned about inequality, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and online subcultures. Ethical vegan. Often targeted by trolls; Never bothered by them. Views always my own. She/her/doorknob depends who you ask.
Dr Elesa Zehndorfer @elesazehndorfer.bsky.social Award winning writer. New politics book 'Post Truth Politics: A Brave New World? (Routledge) coming soon. Author, eMBA lecturer, Psychology Today blog: Political Animals & Animal Spirits. TEDx speaker. PT/ & Pilates coach. 
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
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
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
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
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
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.
Pia Lamberty @pialamberty.bsky.social Psychologin & Autorin | Psychologie für turbulente Zeiten: Psychologische Beratung • Trainings & Workshops • Vorträge |
➡️ Mehr unter pialamberty.de
📚 Mein neues Buch: „Der Untergang kann warten - Wie wir in Krisenzeiten Hoffnung schöpfen“
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
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.
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
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
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Olga Belogolova 🌻 @olgs7.bsky.social Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.
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
Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social Professor of Practice at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
Chinmayi Arun @chinmayiarun.bsky.social Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social Academy Associate, Chatham House. Journalist, disinfo researcher, occasionally lecturer, speaker and moderator. Proud Ukrainian, currently in the UK
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social I investigate why the world is in crisis: www.planetcritical.com
I also investigate what to do about it: www.planetcoordinate.com
Join subscribers in 188 countries.
OOO until Nov.
Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social Senior OSINT Investigator at @cen4infores.bsky.social. Opinions, hot takes, mistakes all my own. https://www.clippings.me/elisethomas
Seana Davis @seanadavis.bsky.social Information integrity | Exploring AI Risk Mitigation
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" :)
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social Recovering UX/product designer. Artist, writer, mom, Gen X New Yorker. Mostly here for politics. Blogging since 2000, I now write a weekly newsletter at jennapark.substack.com
Emma Beals @ejbeals.bsky.social Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈
https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
Anoosh, organizer @anoosh100.bsky.social Organizer (immigration & LGBTQ+), campaign manager, writer. Queer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, brown ✊🏽, & disabled ♿️.
Lg: 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇸🇳
All work: bit.ly/m/link2Anoosh
Political t-shirts: bonfire.com/store/downtown-angry-brown/
Parent. Armenian 🇦🇲 Filipinx 🇵🇭 American. ❤️🐕
Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social Senior Analyst @Graphika.
I have opinions of my own.
Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social Where do we go from here? The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
There is, however, such a thing as society
Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social Prof. Critical Data & Technology Studies @ Goethe University Frankfurt / digital authoritarianism, surveillance, smart cities/
Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social /
Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social
*personal account*
Allie Funk @alfunk.bsky.social Geeking out on human rights, tech, & internet freedom. She/her.
Opinions are all mine, y’all, no one else's.
Sarah Sobieraj @sobieraj.bsky.social Sociologist @ Tufts University
political culture & communication • digital abuse and harassment • social inequalities • media/society • democracy
Shannon Raj Singh @shannonrsingh.bsky.social Independent expert on tech & mass violence.
Athena Tech & Atrocities Advisory / Former Human Rights Counsel @ Twitter
Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Psychological Sciences, Rice University
🧠 Cognitive neuroscientist/psychologist exploring how we recall the past & predict the future to change behavior
Interventions for health, climate change, & education
https://sinclairlab.rice.edu
Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.
Lorena Martínez @lorenamjz.bsky.social Journalist. Head of Editorial Operations in UK & EU @logicallyfacts
Layla Mashkoor @laylam.bsky.social Deputy Director of Research, @dfrlab.bsky.social.