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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
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Joanna Lillis @joannalillis.bsky.social Almaty-based journalist reporting on Central Asia, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (2019) and Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan (out in November 2025)
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social Reporter covering digital privacy and cybersecurity policy for The Record. Mom. Pub trivia queen. Crossword enthusiast. Literary fiction connoisseur. Idiosyncratic. Signal: Suzanne.236 Email: suzanne.smalley@therecord.media.
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Adam Maguire @adammaguire.bsky.social Journalist & Author
My book - The Bailout Babies - out now.
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Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com I publish thebriefing.ie, & founded organisations working on tech & democracy. Tech Policy Press fellow. Political scientist, advocate, writer, knitter. DMs open
Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social President @TechFreedom.org | 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺🗽 | Lawyer: tech, free speech, FTC, FCC, admin | “Resident Antagonist”—Politico | “The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right” | 🇫🇷🏳️🌈📚⛰️🥾🚣🎼 | doing PhD in 🇪🇺/🇺🇸 platform law @ Dublin City U
David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social Technology journalist and host of Tech Gets Real, singer and guitarist in The Board. Desperately trying to focus on nice things. However…
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Michele Neylon @mneylon.social @mneylon in most places
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Irish.
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Fixated with a lot of things.
Currently trying to spend more time offline ...
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Saskia Bricmont @saskiabricmont.bsky.social Députée européenne 🇪🇺 | @GreensEFA @ecolobe 🇧🇪
Commissions LIBE, INTA, IMCO
Droits humains et des enfants | Féministe
Hannah McCarthy @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social Irish journalist covering MENA
Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social Guardian correspondent covering international trade from European perspective, also post Brexit affairs and Ireland Former Brussels corr, Brexit corr + former media corr. Find me at lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com
Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social Formerly a productive member of society. Denied a 2023 Hugo, probably.✒️
#journalist #writer
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Recent(ish) project https://guth.ie/space-navigator/
• https://www.kobo.com/ie/en/ebook/space-navigator
Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
Tabitha Monahan @tabithamonahan.bsky.social Political Reporter with the Irish Independent 🗞️
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Camille Gijs @camgijs.bsky.social Trade reporter at POLITICO Europe
Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social Squabbling, strácáiling, best-selling scribbler in Cork City, Ireland. 'Have I Got Your Attention?' out now via Merrion Press. #AuDHD. Opinions my own. Check https://www.linktr.ee/mike_mcgb for latest.
Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social Journalist with Follow the Money. All things tech, EU, transparency. FOI curious. Find me as "fanta.99" on Signal.
Lise Witteman @lise-witteman.bsky.social Journalist. Heading EU desk @FTM.eu;
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Who's watching Brussels https://tinyurl.com/4waujjhh (EN) / https://tinyurl.com/3hb32drd (NL)
Seana Davis @seanadavis.bsky.social Information integrity | Exploring AI Risk Mitigation
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social On paternity leave. Platforms, power, people.
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Cesca Comyn @cescacomyn.bsky.social Journalist
Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com Journalist interested in #surveillance | Contributor: @wired.com | @ftm.eu | Covers 🇬🇷 for @rsf.org | Researcher: @deakinuniversity.bsky.social | 2026 Fellow @techpolicypress.bsky.social
☏ Signal: vas.99
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Niall Sargent @niallsargent.bsky.social Reporter @thecurrency | Lecturer @griffithcollege | MAs Critical Terrorism Studies & Investigative Journalism | Fmr Intelligence Analyst |
Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com Dublin's independent local newspaper, since 2015. Reader-funded through subscriptions. Wednesdays and Fridays online, monthly in print.
Mike Butcher @mikebutcher.bsky.social Founder & Editor, @pathfounders.bsky.social | Formerly @TechCrunch | mike@pathfounders.com | Signal: mikebutcher.04 | Pathfounders.com | linkedin.com/in/mikebutcher | Speaker / Moderator | Founder: TheEuropas, Techfugees, TechVets | (MBE)
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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social Do investigations for the FT, into dubious accounting and dodgy characters mainly. Wrote a book called Money Men about a spectacular fraud
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social normal guy
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Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social Privacy Lawyer
Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social
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
auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social Every system is a sensor if you hold it right.
Main arena, Baltics. 🇸🇪
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com 🇺🇸🇪🇺American by birth, European by choice
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Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety.
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social Journalist, RTÉ Investigates
Dave Lee @davelee.me US technology columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York. Previously FT and BBC. Watching Cambridge United from afar. dlee1285@bloomberg.net / Signal: davelee.01 / www.davelee.me
Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie Professor in Sustainable Energy, UCC 🇮🇪
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Born 351ppm, daughters born 408 & 410, now >420ppm 🚨 ‼️
Former @IEA and @UCL
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Karl Brophy @karlbrophy.bsky.social CEO, wine drinker, food eater, rugby watcher and time zone activist.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social Solicitor, consultant, artist, writes TheGist.ie newsletter.
Visiting Lecturer. Law Society External Examiner in Data Protection law.
Mark Coughlan @markcoughlan.bsky.social Everything is getting cutting room scrapped, unless the silver screen throws gummy bears back. Journalist, RTÉ Current Affairs (usually seen on @RTE_PrimeTime).
Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social CEO @Vizlegal.bsky.social | Co-founder @righttoknow.bsky.social | #FOIA, #legaltech, journalism, OSINT, urban design | Fmr Innovation Dir @Storyful |
"Very Irish" 🇮🇪 https://gav.substack.com
Cork, Ireland.
Jason Solomon @thesolomonster.bsky.social Solomonster Sounds Off podcast since 2007. Commissioner and Commentator for House of Glory Wrestling.
Markham Nolan ☘️ @markhamnolan.com ‘Ask not for whom the web trolls, it trolls for thee’
markhamnolan.com
Daire Hickey @hidaire.bsky.social Managing Partner at 150Bond. Board Member at RTÉ. NY-based and Irish.
The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social Maybe you'll call us hurlers. On The Ditch.
Tom Hickey @tomhickey.bsky.social Retired Irish Examiner chief sub-editor, facial disfigurement blogger. Memoir in the works. Love news, sports, books, genealogy, writing. Corkman. Blog at https://tomhickeytom.wordpress.com
Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social Talking tech, science and media. Journalist and broadcaster. Host of @fortechssakepod.bsky.social and Connected AI Podcast.
Ryan Browne @ryanbrownecnbc.bsky.social London-based correspondent covering tech for CNBC.
Email: ryan.browne@nbcuni.com
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Brian Lloyd @brianmlloyd.bsky.social Entertainment Journalist. Host of Screenland. On the radio and TV sometimes. Previous bylines include entertainment.ie, Sunday Business Post, Sunday Times, Irish Independent and more
Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social Virgin Media News Correspondent but these are my own views and not those of my employer.
Ireland.
Órla Ryan @orlaryan.bsky.social Journalist @irishtimes.com; creator of Redacted Lives podcast; writer; Signal: orlaryan.46; she/her
Paul Hosford @hosford.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor for the Irish Examiner. Dimestore Saint. True Scene Leader. Tiny Change enthusiast.
Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social CNN Senior Correspondent
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Lo Kapila @lokapila.bsky.social Deputy editor and reporter @DublinInquirer, an independent reader-funded newspaper. Tips and feedback welcome at 0873924796 (Whatsapp, Signal, phone, text), and lois@dublininquirer.com.
Nicky Ryan @nickyryan.ie Editorial Multimedia Lead with @thejournal.ie, co-author of The Last Disco, and gobshite. Produced documentary podcasts Stardust + Redacted Lives
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social Editor, co-founder @dublininquirer.bsky.social.
Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social Irish Times Europe Correspondent currently on assignment in Paris. Podcaster.
Best email me to get in touch ⬇️
https://www.irishtimes.com/author/naomi-oleary/
Pádraig Belton @padraigbelton.bsky.social Journalist. BBC, and a few other places. Buys nappies on eBay.
Tony Connelly @tconnellyrte.bsky.social Europe Editor RTE, Ireland’s public broadcaster
Author Brexit & Ireland: the Dangers, the Opportunities, the Inside Story of the Irish Response
Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com Politics guy @virginmedianews.bsky.social; host of Monday with Gavan Reilly (10pm, Virgin Media One); weekly columnist @thejournal.ie; bestselling author of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞: linktr.ee/gavreilly
John Reynolds @johnreynlds.bsky.social Freelance business journalist, Sunday & Irish Independent / The Currency.
Also cover climate and energy. Other writing, editing & comms work too.
CNBC @cnbc.com First in business worldwide. 💰
emma @emmabren.bsky.social Fan of heavy metal and small animals
FERGLOR @ferglor.bsky.social Drums @ Venus Sleeps https://venussleeps.bandcamp.com/ 🇮🇪 Psychedelic Doom Metal
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LFC ⚽🔴
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Katie Hannon @katiehannon.bsky.social Upfront with Katie Hannon. One third of the Behind the Ballot election podcast. Occasionally heard on Liveline. Working on a second series of The Records Show. Kerry Hospice Patron.
Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social Opinion Editor, Irish Examiner |
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Cónal Thomas @conalthomas90.bsky.social Political Correspondent, Irish Independent & Sunday Independent. Reach me - Conal.Thomas@independent.ie
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
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Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social Chief Europe Correspondent at the South China Morning Post.
Tracking the shifting tectonic plates of global trade and geopolitics.
All posts should be heard in a Fermanagh accent.
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
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Andrii Degeler @adegeler.bsky.social Tech journalist | #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Laura Kayali @laukaya.bsky.social Senior defense correspondent at POLITICO Europe in Paris. lkayali@politico.eu
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
Andreeeeeeeeeeaaaa @brandalisms.bsky.social Exited AI founder turned VC turned back
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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social Tech editor, Irish & Sunday Independent. Podcaster. Photographer. Dublin, Ireland.
Euractiv @euractiv.com Euractiv is an independent pan-European media network. We are an essential, trusted source for news, analysis and debate on EU politics and policy. www.euractiv.com
Aoife Barry @sweetoblivion.bsky.social Journalist, author of Social Capital, Corkonian in Dublin.
Charlie Taylor @charlietaylor.bsky.social Technology and Innovation Editor at The Business Post in Dublin
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
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