Ben Windeler @bwindeler.bsky.social Building digital spaces for democratic futures @dpsorg.bsky.social
Gehan Gunatilleke @gehandg.bsky.social Lawyer | Partner at http://lexag.co | Commissioner at the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka
Himanshu Panday @hpanday.bsky.social Co-founder, Dignity in Difference
Urbano Reviglio @urbanz.bsky.social Research associate in social media governance and internet more generally @CMPF @EUI
Matias González Mama @thaumatropo.bsky.social Coordinator of the Legislative Observatory at CELE.
In error, the subject affirms its autonomy: a manifestation of freedom irreducible to the mechanical repetition of correctness. BVB
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
https://csmapnyu.org/links
Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social For 20 years, ISD has led the way in detecting, exposing and combatting terrorism, extremism, foreign interference and authoritarianism.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
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michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social
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.
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing issues at the intersection of law, tech & society. https://law.yale.edu/isp/community
Tech Oversight Project @techoversight.bsky.social The Tech Oversight Project is a nonprofit dedicated to holding Big Tech accountable by passing comprehensive antitrust, privacy protections, and children's safety legislation.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter: dispatch.techoversight.org
Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social We produce research and public resources on democratic attitudes and political behavior. Founded and directed by Sean Westwood (Dartmouth) and Yphtach Lelkes (Penn). www.polarizationresearchlab.org and americaspoliticalpulse.com
Tech Transparency Project @ttp-updates.bsky.social The Tech Transparency Project is a research initiative of Campaign for Accountability that investigates the power, influence, & impact of Big Tech. https://www.techtransparencyproject.org
Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese.eurosky.social 🇪🇺🌻 Member of EU Parliament @die-gruenen | she/her
Digital, Democracy, Disinformation
Stanford Internet Observatory @stanfordio.bsky.social The Stanford Internet Observatory is a cross-disciplinary program studying the abuse of the Internet and providing thoughtful policy and technical solutions.
Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social Europe Director @openmarkets.bsky.social. Former UK Parliamentary adviser and tech policy consultant. Pro-tech, anti-monopoly.
CDT Europe @cdteu.org Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe 🇪🇺 Advancing EU law and tech policy with a focus on democracy and human rights.
Part of @cdt.org's Global team.
https://cdt.org/eu/
People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social Algorithm, we’re onto you. Let’s build a better digital world.
👾 Linktree linktr.ee/peoplevsbigtech
📩 Newsletter blog.peoplevsbig.tech
Matt Motyl @mattmotyl.bsky.social Trust & safety expert, political psychologist, behavioral data scientist, recovering academic, pun and dog lover.
vera.ai @vera-ai.bsky.social VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence. Research project co-funded by HorizonEU. Makers of InVID-WeVerify-vera.ai verification plugin, plus much more! Focus: countering disinformation. Here: project owners’ views.
https://www.veraai.eu/home
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1
Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social The Center for Media Engagement leads efforts to understand and improve the information ecosystem for the benefit of democracy.- I Ravi Iyer @iyerland.bsky.social Managing Director USC Neely Center
Jeff Allen @jeffallen.bsky.social Now: Building smaller but better things @Integrity_Inst integrityinstitute.org
Physics: @LBNLphysics - @augerobs
Tech: @dotdashco - @Facebook - @DNC
João Pedro Quintais @jpquintais.bsky.social Associate Professor, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. Researching on Platform Regulation, intermediary liability, content moderation and intellectual property (mostly copyright).
w: https://www.ivir.nl/profile/quintais/
Global Network Initiative @thegni.bsky.social A multistakeholder collaboration working to protect & advance freedom of expression and privacy in the tech sector.
Democracy Reporting International @democracyreporting.bsky.social DRI supports local ways of promoting democracy with impartial analysis and best practice examples, bringing international standards of democracy to life.
AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Ethical Legal Societal laboratory focused on the implications of AI for Media and Democracy 🤝 CWI, HvA & UvA #ELSAlab
Prosocial Design Network @prosocialdesign.bsky.social Bridging research and practice toward building healthy online spaces. prosocialdesign.org
Dangerous Speech Project @dangerousspeech.org The Dangerous Speech Project: against violent hatred, for free speech.
linktr.ee/dangerousspeech
Everything in Moderation @eimdotco.bsky.social About the policies, products, platforms and people shaping content moderation, now and in the future.
Weekly newsletter every Friday. Subscribe at everythinginmoderation.co
Risto Uuk @ristouuk.bsky.social Head of European Policy and Research @ Future of Life Institute | PhD Researcher @ KU Leuven | Author, forthcoming Wiley book “The AI Endgame” (2027)
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
Michael Meyer-Resende @meyer-resende.bsky.social Writer and Executive Director, Democracy Reporting International. Lisbon & Berlin.
Consensus is gemütlich. Debate is inspiring.
@awo.agency @awo.agency
Vardon Hamdiu | Sparkable @vardon.bsky.social Executive Director, Sparkable (www.sparkable.cc). Digital Peacebuilding, Healthier Social Media, Prosocial Design, Responsible Tech, Digital Rights.
linktr.ee/vardon.world
Marc Faddoul @marcfaddoul.com Director at @aiforensics.org - Algorithmic Audit and Platform Accountability non-profit
Also with @freeourfeeds.com to expand ATproto infra and ecosystem!
PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social We're the TIP Group at the Political Studies Association
Creating dialogue on the impact of technology & tech policy.
Follow for news, events, and more.
https://psatip.uk
Online Safety Network @osnetwork.bsky.social Building a better online world for all
Visit our website for all the latest analysis, commentary, research and resources relating to online safety, OSA enforcement, AI and emerging harms: www.onlinesafetynetwork.uk
Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social One of the world's leading communities for tech for good. Founded at stanford.edu in 2008. nytimes.com featured. Helped launch diasporafoundation.org and WeVoyce.com
FAccTRec @facctrec.bsky.social The FAccTRec workshop at ACM RecSys. https://facctrec.github.io/facctrec2023
Lisa Schirch @lisa-schirch.bsky.social professor of technology and peace studies, tech ethics and deliberative technology, social justice activist, animal lover, biker, hiker, painter, mother, gardener, earthling, national park lover, photographer, book lover,
João Vinagre @jvinagre.eurosky.social Recommender systems and AI researcher at JRC/ECAT. Reads books, rides waves and plays in a band.
ControlAI @controlai.com Working to keep humanity in control.
Take action: https://controlai.org
Newsletter: https://blog.controlai.org
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/ptPScqtdc5
PeaceRep @peacerep.bsky.social Rethinking peace & transition processes in a changing conflict landscape
ICT4Peace Foundation @ict4peace.bsky.social ICT4Peace, since 2003, leverages ICT and new media for peace, crisis management, and humanitarian work. Since 2007, it also fosters cybersecurity and peaceful cyberspace through global negotiations.- C ClaudiaMeier.bsky.social @claudiameier.bsky.social
Liz Barry @lizbarry.bsky.social ⚡️methods for the madness ⚡️
Executive Director @metagov.bsky.social
lizbarry.net
Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨
Also: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
@devikamalik.bsky.social @devikamalik.bsky.social
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
David Thiel @grumplicio.us Infosec person focused on harm reduction in technology; fmr tech, data science and T&S research at https://io.stanford.edu & https://tsjournal.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0947-5921
Also music things + open data.
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
Riana @riana.bsky.social Tech policy researcher at Stanford. Former litigator. Anger is an energy. Dum spiro spero. she/her
@francibosco.bsky.social @francibosco.bsky.social
@andreas-hirblinger.bsky.social @andreas-hirblinger.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Geneva Graduate Institute mainly focused on the Digitalisation and the Socio-Technicality of Peacebuilding. Currently mostly sleep-deprived.
Raquel Recuero @raquelrecuero.bsky.social Professor/Researcher at UFPEL/UFRGS. MIDIARS Lab director.
Also @raquelrecuero@aoir.social
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/midiars/
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/raquelrecuero/about-me/
Ramón Salaverría @salaverria.es Full Professor of Journalism at Universidad de Navarra. Member of Academia Europæa. Coordinator of Iberifier - Iberian Digital Media Observatory. https://www.salaverria.es
Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu Computational Communication Scientist #rstats | Postdoc Researcher | University of Amsterdam | @ascor.bsky.social | @algosoc.org | Blog: favstats.eu | Running on plant-based fuel 🌱 | he/him
DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social dsa40collaboratory.eu | joint project by the @europeannewschool.bsky.social and the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
@natalihelberger.bsky.social @natalihelberger.bsky.social
Alek Tarkowski @alek.eurosky.social Doing my share to help the digital commons grow. Director of Strategy at openfuture.eu, sociologist and digital activist. European perspective on global challenges. Board Chair at Centrum Cyfrowe, Board Member at Wikimedia Europe. Bread, tea, apples.
Tom Kemp @tomkemp00.bsky.social Executive Director of CalPrivacy aka California Privacy Protection Agency.
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies @unodet.bsky.social Official account / @un.org Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies. #ODET #DigitalCooperation #GlobalDigitalCompact
un.org/odet
Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social Lab directed by @ckatzenbach at @ZeMKI, Uni Bremen. Research and outreach on platform governance, AI, discourses, and regulation. Home of https://platformgovernancearchive.org
URL: https://platform-governance.org
AlgoSoc @algosoc.org 'Public Values in the Algorithmic Society' (AlgoSoc) is an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to a societal perspective on automated decision making
AlgoSoc.org
noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu About us 👉 http://noyb.eu
Become a member 👉 http://noyb.eu/support
#MakePrivacyReality #InvestInPrivacy
Kirsten Fiedler @kiki.eurosky.social job: European Parliament | previously @edri
fighting for digital rights
born 337 PPM
other: swim bike run
🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 ヾ(-_- )ゞ
only dank memes on the weekend
Anupriya Datta @anupriyadatta.bsky.social Tech policy reporter at @euractiv / Former tech advisor in the EU Parliament
Scoops/tips: anupriya.datta@euractiv.com
Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social Associate prof in private law & tech (Utrecht University) & PI ERC Research Stg HUMANads '22-'27 @goanta@someone.elses.computer
Stefaan G. Verhulst @sverhulst.bsky.social - T The Data Tank @thedatatank.bsky.social
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión (CELE) @celeup.bsky.social Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión (CELE) @ Facultad de Derecho - Universidad de Palermo.
🔗 Publicaciones y novedades: http://palermo.edu/cele
🔗 Observatorio Legislativo y Blog: https://observatoriolegislativocele.com
Digital Public Square @digitalpublicsquare.org Shaping a future where digital spaces bring us closer together.
Leah Ferentinos @leahf.bsky.social Election Integrity Advocate, Political Ads Policy Manager @Meta, Former Yale Law ISP Resident Fellow
Brittney Gallagher @brittneygallagher.bsky.social Co-founder of AI Objectives Institute with Peter Eckersley | Journalist | Software Designer | Mom
Lover of: traveling, space, learning, dancing, reading, sci-fi, laughing, orchids
Glenn Ellingson @geewiz.bsky.social Humans gonna human. Gotta love 'em anyway, and maybe try to help out a bit...
Jean Golding Institute @jgibristol.bsky.social Jean Golding Institute - a hub for data and AI @bristoluni.bsky.social
Visit our website at http://bristol.ac.uk/golding
Find us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/jgibristol
Theodora Skeadas @theodoraskeadas.bsky.social Ex-Tweep, hiker, traveler, and fantasy fiction reader!
Peter Chapman @pfchap.bsky.social Associate Director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) at Georgetown University
[views my own]
Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com Knowing things is a solved problem. Getting along is not. Working on AI, media, and inter-group conflict @CHAI_Berkeley. Got here from computational journalism.
D3 – Defesa dos Direitos Digitais @direitosdigitais.pt Associação D3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais.
Junta-te a nós em http://direitosdigitais.pt.
Membro da rede EDRi.org.
Fediverso: http://ciberlandia.pt
Searx: https://searx.direitosdigitais.pt
LibreTranslate: https://translate.direitosdigitais.pt
Victoire Rio @riovictoire.bsky.social Obsessing over fixing information integrity @whattofix.tech
WHAT TO FIX @whattofix.tech www.whattofix.tech is a tech policy and accountability nonprofit, moving the conversation beyond problems into actionable diagnoses and solutions.
Pioneering research into social media monetization practices since 2019.
Alissa Cooper @alissacooper.bsky.social Executive Director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute at Georgetown University
Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social digital // political // mobile comm scholar, head of ‘Digital News Dynamics’ research group at Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin
Clara Iglesias Keller @claraigk.bsky.social Researcher. Reader. Mom. 🇧🇷🇩🇪
Legal scholar into many things democracy, media and digital technologies. Leading the research group "Technology, Power and Domination" at the Weizenbaum Institute | WZB .
claraigk.com
@digipolicy.bsky.social