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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Mohamed Saliou CAMARA @mohamedsc88.bsky.social Journaliste d'investigation - Fact-checker - Consultant en Sécurité numérique - Analyste des données - Analyste politique - Éditeur climatique - Fondateur et Administrateur Général de Bambouguinee.com
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Samer Elchahabi @samer1979.bsky.social Governance, Media and Human Rights. Views are my own.
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Myth Detector @mythdetector.com Fact-checking & myth debunking platform.
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European Digital Media Observatory @edmo-eu.bsky.social We bring together fact-checkers, media literacy practitioners, scholars, journalists, and online platforms to tackle disinformation. Based at @eui-eu.bsky.social. Visit us at www.edmo.eu.
FactCheckHub @factcheckhub.com The #FactCheckHub is the verification platform of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (@TheICIR) aimed at combatting misinformation and disinformation in the society.
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Dean Miller @2dogs0waiting.bsky.social Managing editor @LeadStories.com, Beating skull against wall since '85 as a reporter, editor, author, prof and spox for Local #3 Union of Inkstained Wretches.
Gratuitous dog content is not something I am working to fix.
Ingrid Brodnig @brodnig.bsky.social Journalistin & Autorin | Fokus: Hass im Netz, Desinformation, digitale Gesellschaft | Bücher: https://www.brodnig.org/bucher/
Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social Investigative reporter for PROPUBLICA
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First book: A DEATH ON W STREET
Next book: Southern true-crime epic about porn kingpin Michael Thevis, the mob, and the FBI. Imagine Goodfellas meets Boogie Nights…
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
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PAFF.Africa @paff.africa Plateforme Africaine des Factcheckers Francophones.
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Tim Longman 🏳️🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social Poli Sci and IR prof at BU. Posts on Africa, human rights, US politics, LGBTQ+, religion & politics. Progressive, Christian, proud gay dad.
2 books on Rwanda. Currently writing book on church and state across Africa and another on LGBTQ backlash in Africa
Kennedy Wandera @kennedywandera.bsky.social
International Broadcaster. Board Chair, The Foreign Press Association, Africa.
Postgraduate, University of Leeds, UK🇬🇧
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David Hundeyin @davidhundeyin.com Investigative journalist & filmmaker. Founder @WestAfricaWeek. 2023 James Currey Fellow, University of Cambridge.
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Jonathan Rosenthal @journalistjon.bsky.social International Editor at The Economist
Previously covered Africa, banking, European business & finance
Jean le Roux @jeanleroux.bsky.social Senior Investigator, Graphika.
Cape Town, South Africa.
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Graphika @graphika.com We create the world’s most detailed maps of social media landscapes and use our technology to analyze information flows online.
AntonHarber @antonharber.bsky.social Journalist, free speech activist, executive director of the Henry Nxumalo Foundation
Redi Tlhabi @reditlhabi.bsky.social Award winning broadcaster, author, moderator. South African. http://racialequity.atlanticfellows.org. http://ModerateThePanel.Com. Ex BBC, Aljazeera. MA: IR
Murray Hunter @muzhunter.bsky.social Digital rights and surveillance oversight.
Underperforming in mischief-making.
South Africa.
Open Secrets ZA @opensecrets.org.za Open Secrets holds the profiteers of economic crime, human rights abuses, and war to account. We go where it’s hard to disrupt networks of power.
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Lynne Smit @lynnesmit.bsky.social Senior editor at Nature Africa, changing the narrative around African scientific achievements, one story at a time.
Owl Arcana 🇿🇦 @owlarcana.bsky.social Editor at @carteblanche.co.za and relentless news junkie. Often staring at the ceiling at 3 in the morning. Owns two cats but wants to own them all. Perpetually playing catch-up on TV series from a decade ago. 
Spotlight @spotlightnsp.bsky.social In-depth, public interest health journalism from South Africa. Reporting and analysis on TB, HIV, NCDs, health systems, and much more. www.SpotlightNSP.co.za
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Academic, Professional Dabbler
Phumzile Van Damme @phumzile.bsky.social Changemaker. Award-Winning Counter Disinformation Strategist. @Harvard Technology & Human Rights Fellow. @VitalVoices Global Leader. Ex-MP. INFJ. Virago.
Moxii Africa @moxiiafricaza.bsky.social Striving for Open and Trusted Information.
Media Monitoring Africa is rebranding to Moxii Africa.
Jeff Wicks 🇿🇦 @jeffwicks.bsky.social Investigative Journalist at News24. Co-author of Eight Days in July. Projects: #Silenced #BloodBrothers #KillingKinnear
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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
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- Prev CIR, BBC, Bellingcat.
Sohini Gowan @sohinigowan.bsky.social 🇿🇦 Healthcare Communicator. Data-driven Storyteller. Strategist. Former Clinical Research professional. Media literacy advocate. Politics nerd. Joburg-to-the-core.
Ann Ngengere @angengere.bsky.social Science Communication || Information Integrity || Climate 🤝 health
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Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
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Thandi Smith @thandis.bsky.social Head of Programmes at Media Monitoring Africa www.mma.org.za ll @mediamattersza
Media, media freedom, digital rights, internet governance and freedom of expression.
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
HelloThando 🇿🇦 @hellothando.bsky.social Award winning South African journalist Previously @moneyweb, @mailandguardian, @Powerfm987 Currently: @BDliveSA @BusinessLiveSA maekot@businesslive.co.za Let’s talk
amanda strydom @amandas.bsky.social Senior Programme Manager @ Code for Africa
Synthetic media ethics, journalism & info manipulation research
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Andrew Fraser @arfness.bsky.social Opinions. Comms. OSINT. Analysis. Marketing strat. Some snark. Radical apanthropist.
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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social Advancing African security by expanding understanding, providing a trusted platform for dialogue, building partnerships, and catalyzing solutions
Andre Vlok @andrevlok.bsky.social Conflict and employment dispute specialist, negotiator, mediator, arbitrator, author
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social researching & teaching communication and media | topics: political influencers, platform governance, content moderation, chat and messaging apps, journalism | he/him | 🇪🇺 alien | www.martinriedl.com | opinions: own
Sahana Udupa @sahanaudupa.bsky.social professor of media anthropology @LMU Munich, Harvard BKC Fellow, ERC projects on extreme speech, AI, content moderation, social media https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/SahanaUdupa 
Anmol Alphonso @anmolalphonso.bsky.social He/him. Journalist @boomlive.in | tweets about #misinformation, #politics, #culture | Liberal. (PS: views are personal
HKS Misinformation Review @misinforeview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed academic journal of cutting-edge misinformation research. Follow for updates on articles & engagement with the #misinformationresearch community.
Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social Lecturer UVSQ, France. Journal Editor, Media Theory & French Cultural Studies.
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Global Network Initiative @thegni.bsky.social A multistakeholder collaboration working to protect & advance freedom of expression and privacy in the tech sector.
Eve Gaumond @evegaumond.bsky.social Scholar - Law & tech
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Erin Bates @ermbates.bsky.social Award-winning freelance journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. @carteblanche.co.za anchor and presenter. Shares ≠ endorsements. Views ≠ those of my employers.
Stellenbosch Journalism @stelliesjourn.bsky.social The official account of the Department of Journalism at Stellenbosch University, housed at the Protea Building.
Magdel @magdeldp.bsky.social Copy editor. Words matter. She/her.
Marina Joubert @marinajoubert.bsky.social Science communication researcher, lecturer and trainer at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. #scicomm for life!
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Johan Fourie @johanfourieza.bsky.social Chair of Economics, History and Policy at Stellenbosch University. Author of Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom. Blogger at www.ourlongwalk.com.
Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social South African journalist & academic. teach/research/publish on media, journalism, archives, public health, data & research methods. Strong sideline in homicide studies + forensic pathology. Writes books and sings songs. It’s not AI it’s automation
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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social Science and medical journalist|Freelance.🇿🇦
Researcher, consultant at The Story of Emily Museum in Cornwall | Biographer of Emily Hobhouse.
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Africa Check @africacheck.org We hold public figures accountable for what they say, and debunk dangerous false statements. Get the facts: http://africacheck.info/m/fact-check-HQ
Herman Wasserman @hwasser.bsky.social Professor of Journalism at Stellenbosch University. Director of Centre for Information Integrity in Africa. Interested in information integrity, disinformation, journalism with a focus on the Global South. https://ciia.africa email: hwasserman@sun.ac.za
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