NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social crows can hold grudges for 17 years. amateurs.
Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social A celebration of all things bicycle. No AI. I'm a teacher 🇺🇸 of English living in Slovakia.
Rodney Benson @rodneybenson.bsky.social professor NYU Media, Culture, & Comm, & Sociology; new book How Media Ownership Matters (Oxford, April '25), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-media-ownership-matters-9780199931316?lang=en&cc=us
Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
Kate Edmundson @theperseids.bsky.social Public radio tech. Music, community, food, mountains, family.
Veronika Völlinger @vvoellin.bsky.social Journalistin | factchecking @dpa, dort viel Telegram-OSINT, und frei u.a. @zeitonline | Ausgebildet @Nannenschule
Sébastien Martineau @martineauseb.bsky.social Frenchman in Germany. Former projectionist, back in the days when we still used film. Journalist. Posting in 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧 Based in Hamburg
Mikko Salo @mikkovsalo.bsky.social fi.linkedin.com/in/mvsalo
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Alice Echtermann @echt-alice.bsky.social Investigative Journalist & Fact-Checker @ NDR | Former Head of CORRECTIV.Faktencheck | OSINT | a.echtermann@ndr.de
Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social Director of Research + Deputy Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. Fellow of Green Templeton College. Lead researcher of the Digital News Report. www.richardfletcher.me
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social assistant professor @AmericanU. working on countering misinformation in developing countries. @upenn.edu PhD in polisci & philly sports fan. outdoors most of the time
📍washington, dc
https://sumitrabadrinathan.github.io/
Short SpaceX! @gt124.bsky.social $TSLA is the next Enron.
$TRUMP killed #CRYPTO.
Government scanning phones exposed the internet privacy delusion.
Support https://www.au.org/
2 trillion valuation for SpaceX? Don't be a bag holder.
Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Thinking critically about data infrastructures, digital platform content moderation and global security governance. She/her.
Mark Stencel @markstencel.bsky.social Sponsor for the future of communication at Words Work Lab: https://wordsworklab.bsky.social/ | https://wordsworklab.com/
Matthew Leake @matthewleake.bsky.social Comms officer (and occasional journalist) @reutersinstitute.bsky.social
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Elizaliz @elizasan.bsky.social Anthropologist turned Software Engineer. Jack of a few trades, master of none. From the definitely always Canadian Provence of Minnesota.
Russ Cantrell @justrwc.bsky.social I’m just a human, here to experience this existence with curiosity and a dash of humor. I strive to do good, be good, and maybe - just maybe - leave things a tiny bit better than I found them. Life is strange, but I’m here for whatever it has in store. 💙
Caithlin Mercer @caithlinm.bsky.social The wildfire and the rain.
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
bit.ly/bgcjr
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening.
Dorian Quelle @dorianquelle.bsky.social PhD Candidate Quantitative Network Science @ UZH, Research Associate @ Oxford Internet Institute, Data Scientist & Disinformation Researcher @ http://Pattrn.AI
Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social Political Scientist and social media addict
Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: tinyurl.com/y7ekfkhx
Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social Researcher on social media misinformation and manipulation, director of the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe.iu.edu, pronounced “awesome”) at Indiana University- D David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social computational social scientist
Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
Dr. Manisha Ganguly @manisha.bsky.social The Guardian's investigations correspondent & visual forensics lead. Currently writing a book. tech x conflict x human rights. friend to cats. manishaganguly.com
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com Associate Professor at BU. Cybersecurity and Cybersafety. Come for the memes, stay for the science. Skeets are my own
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com
Dan Williams @danwphilosophy.bsky.social Philosopher. Interested in: Philosophy, Psychology, Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, Social Science, Politics.
Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social Prof @Oxford, Affiliate @MIT www.MohsenMosleh.com
Maddy Jalbert @maddyjalbert.bsky.social Research Scientist at the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington. Social Psych PhD at USC. I study misinformation correction and how people make judgments of truth. Otherwise probably in the mountains. She/her
Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social I study effects of misinformation.
Professor at the School of Psychological Science and Fellow of the Public Policy Institute at the University of Western Australia
Views my own.
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Briony Swire-Thompson @brionyswire.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Psychology of Misinformation Lab
Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social 🔎 Misinformation, social media & the news 🗞️
🇨🇭 Postdoc at the University of Zurich, previously Reuters Institute & ENS 🇫🇷
https://sachaaltay.github.io/
Emma Spiro @emmaspiro.bsky.social Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
Michelle Amazeen @commscholar.bsky.social Associate Dean of Research, College of Communication
Associate Professor of Mass Communication,
Director, Communication Research Center,
Boston University
New book – Content Confusion: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553605/content-confusion/
Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social Senior researcher (she/her) @gesis.org | occasionally still hanging around at @compcommlab.bsky.social & @csh.ac.at ✨
https://julaluehring.github.io/
Samantha Bradshaw @sbradshaw.bsky.social Assistant Professor, American University | Studying disinfo, cybersecurity, and emerging technology 👩💻
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnazj.bsky.social assistant prof in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan, prev postdoc at Stanford HAI, PhD at MIT CSAIL, research in HCI and Social Computing
Tanu Mitra @tanumitra.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UW_iSchool
Computer Science, PhD @GeorgiaTech
Social computing researcher studying online misinformation
Onur Varol @ovarol.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at @SabanciU
🌐 varollab.com
#networkscience, #datascience, #css
Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing, ML. Head of copenlu.bsky.social lab.
#NLProc #NLP #XAI
http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/
Katherine Ognyanova @ognyanova.bsky.social Professor at the School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University | Research on politics, tech, trust, misinformation, network science, computational social science | PI at http://chip50.org, http://covidstates.org, http://naiom.net
Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social Political Scientist & Experimentalist | 🔍(Political) News, (Mis)information | Social Media | Trust & Skepticism | AI | (Field) Experiments🔬
University of Zurich, Department of Political Science
💻 www.emmahoes.com
Laurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social MSCA COFUND LEAD AI Postdoc researcher in information/disinformation with a blend of information science, STS, ethics and journalism studies 🇳🇴 UiB + 🇧🇪 ULB https://ohmybox.info/about
MISDOOM @misdoom.bsky.social Official account for MISDOOM - Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media l 6th edition coming on September 2-4, 2024.
https://www.misdoom2024.uni-muenster.de/
Savvas Zannettou @zsavvas90.bsky.social Assistant Professor at TU Delft, Associated Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and core member of iDRAMALab.
https://zsavvas.github.io/
Bojana Većkalov @bojanaveckalov.bsky.social Current postdoc political psych @Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL. Social psych PhD @UvA. Interested in attitudes & persuasion, belief systems & sustainability
Arkaitz Zubiaga @zubiaga.org Academic QMUL. Social data science, Computational social science, NLP. he/him
Isabelle Freiling @freiling.bsky.social assistant professor @UUtah @UofUComm. research on #misinformation #trust #scicomm #polcomm #mediaeffects #openscience.
Josh Compton @joshcompton.bsky.social I'm Prof of Speech @Dartmouth and a stutterer. How does that work? Very well, actually! I've also been researching inoculation theory for 25+ years in politics, health, sport, satire, education, science, and more. #OCD https://sites.dartmouth.edu/jcompton/
Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social Journalist, doing OSINT at Sky News.
Melissa Goldin @melissagoldin.bsky.social News Verification Reporter @apnews.com
Previously: @newsguard.bsky.social | mgoldin@ap.org
apnews.com/ap-fact-check
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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Trust & safety, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. They/he
Doctor Nurse @mattnurse.com Science communication researcher at the Australian National University - investigating false misinformation about real biosecurity threats.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/matt-nurse
Professor Amanda Sturgill @drsturg.bsky.social Truthmonger. I write books, teach students and make podcasts about you being smarter about misinformation. #WeAreAltGov #DetectingDeception https://bit.ly/UnSpunPod
Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social #SciComm & #PublicHealth | Public Engagement Strategist @CienciaPR and Science Communication PhD Student @UW-Madison LSC | Boricua 🇵🇷 | www.andreaisabel.com
R Garner @rhgarner.bsky.social She/her. Science media fact-checker, scicommer & independent researcher. If not talking about animals, I’ll be photographing them.
I run the Animal Photo Reference Repository (@animalphotorefs)
Pepa Atanasova @apepa.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen; interpretability, xAI, factuality, accountability, xAI diagnostics https://apepa.github.io/
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
Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social Political Science Prof at University of Southampton. I study misperceptions, fact-checking, and foreign policy attitudes. American in the UK. he/his/y’all. Spurs #COYS.
Hannah May (née Metzler) @hannahmetzler.bsky.social Clinical psychologist in training & scientist. Psychology, emotions, social media, misinformation & mental health. #EffectiveAltruism 🔸10% Pledge #5226 with @GivingWhatWeCan.bsky.social
Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social Research Fellow | University of Oxford | Magdalen College.
Head of Oxford EDGE Lab | @edgelab.bsky.social.
Clinical Psychologist | Public Health | Statistics | Dynamic Modelling.
I study how people transition into and recover from mental disorders.
Susan Minichiello @susanmini.bsky.social I write newsletters @ The News Literacy Project. Mama to one 👦🏼. Former journo: susanmini.com
I’m also a:
🍲 Thai foodie
🌸 gardener
🐶 dog lover
📚 library nerd
Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com Learning Programs Manager, Western Sydney University Library | PhD, Active Researcher | she/her | using this account to keep a record of what I read 📚
Research: mis/dis info, social media
www.oliviainwood.com | ORCID: 0000-0001-6678-888X
Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social Author, illustrator, and researcher of misinformation and fringe claims. Former Editor (2002–2021) of Junior Skeptic, and author of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be and other science books for kids and adults. https://www.danielloxton.com
Akin Unver @akinunver.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of International Relations at Ozyegin University, Istanbul. Data Science, Emerging Tech, War, TechnoPolitics. P.I. of DE-CONSPIRATOR (HorizonEU). Associate Editor; @gsqjournal.bsky.social Fellow; Carnegie Endowment Fellow. (akinunver.org)
Niklas Henderson @14henderson.bsky.social PhD, UEA | Game-based inoculation against misinformation | Game development lecturer @ NUA | Cyber | Seeking postdoc position!
📍Fine City of Norwich 🔰
https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/niklas-henderson
linktr.ee/nhdisinfo
Peter Cunliffe-Jones @pcunliffejones.bsky.social Information effects at Facts Matter Research | visiting researcher at Uni Westminster | founder africacheck.org | new book: “Fake news - what’s the harm?” available in print or as free e-book https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/3197xq21t?locale=en
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.
Sara A. @coolfacejane.bsky.social
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
Marianna Spring @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social BBC’s Social Media Investigations Correspondent | Radio 4 podcasts | @BBCPanorama & current affairs | #Americast host | ARIAS & British Podcast best host
Philipp Schmid @philippschmid.bsky.social Research about #misinformation #healthcommunication Asst. Prof. @Radboud_Uni
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Uzair Rizvi @rizviuzair.bsky.social Independent fact checker, AI & OSINT guy
Previously head of Media-AI Literacy & Training @logically 🇬🇧
Led 🌏 Biggest Election Fact-Checking network 🤝Google 🇮🇳 ‘24
Former @afp.com 🇫🇷
#misinformation #factchecking #AI #osint #medialiteracy
Hebe Campbell @hebecampbell.bsky.social Video Journalist and Presenter at The Independent. Covering disinformation/social media.
Mikey Biddlestone @mikeybiddlestone.bsky.social Research Associate @COSPIRACY_FX @KentPsychology @UniKent. Studying Misinformation | Conspiracy Beliefs | Political Psychology (he/him).
antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social Exposing troll farms: 🇷🇺🇺🇦 and beyond
Cited by: @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @financialtimes.com @CNN.com @Wired.com @afpfactuel.bsky.social @LeMonde.fr @SZde.bsky.social @TheTimes.com @NBCnews.com @EFE.com
𝕏 / 🐦: antibot4navalny
Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social Technology & emerging threats | Research Fellow, Atlantic Council. Views my own. 🇺🇦
Aoife Gallagher @aoifegall.bsky.social Fellow at @isdglobal.
Previously, Investigations @ Storyful.
**Taking a break**
Author of Web Of Lies: The Lure and Danger of Conspiracy Theories.
https://www.dubraybooks.ie/product/web-of-lies-9780717195121
🇮🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
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 Susan Oliver (PhD) @drsusanoliver.bsky.social Scientist who is passionate about correcting misinformation
https://www.youtube.com/backtothescience
Information Futures Lab @infofutureslab.bsky.social Making trusted information accessible to all through collaboration, research & innovation 🌐 Based at Brown University's School of Public Health https://sites.brown.edu/informationfutures/
Cris Tardaguila @ctardaguila.bsky.social Anti-disinformation journalist and researcher in Washington, DC. Founder of @agencia-lupa.bsky.social (Brazil). Former ICFJ, IFCN/Poynter, revista piauí, O Globo, Folha de S.Paulo. She/her. Portuguese/Spanish/English. Wine and trips. Breaking news ❤️
Kate FitzGerald @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social PhD Candidate & Research Analyst @ Digital Media Research Centre, QUT.
Research information disorder, conspiracy theories, and knowledge production practices.
Read Them Sideways podcast co-host and producer.
(she/her)
Prof Aleksandra Cichocka @alekscichocka.bsky.social Political psychologist at the University of Kent.
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.
Centre for Information Resilience @cen4infores.bsky.social Non-profit that exposes human rights & war crimes, counters disinformation, & combats online harms targeting women & minorities.
www.info-res.org
Ross Burley @rwdburley.bsky.social Co-founder of the Centre for Information Resilience. OSINT, foreign policy, disinfo, Spurs
Siri Christiansen @sirichr.bsky.social Frilansjournalist och faktagranskare 🤖
Denis Teyssou @dteyssou.bsky.social @afpnews.bsky.social Medialab, journalist, fake news debunker (verification plug-in founder & maker) @vera-ai.bsky.social innovation manager, PhD candidate in Information sciences on #disinformation @ParisNanterreUniversity
tlmn @tlmn.eurosky.social Journalistic Researcher, Trainer, OSINT/Verification-Expert @ DW Innovation. Also into GenerativeAI for media (focus on fighting disinformation).