Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
wajahatmali@protonmail.com
Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social visual investigations @nytimes / sanjana.varghese@nytimes.com
Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
Zettlr @zettlr.com Your one-stop publication workbench. Free and Open Source. Get it at zettlr.com/download.
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe
Mayor Lisa Brown @mayorspokane.bsky.social Official account for Mayor Lisa Brown, the 48th Mayor of @spokanecity.org.
City of Spokane @spokanecity.org Located in the heart of the Inland Northwest, Spokane is home to more than 235,900 people. my.spokanecity.org
@kxly.com @kxly.com 
Auntie’s Bookstore @auntiesbooks.bsky.social 📚 Spokane’s literary landmark, since 1978!
🛍️ Shop 24/7 at auntiesbooks.com
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co The Press for the People.
Spokane-based, local, worker-owned independent online media. We hold the powerful accountable and empower the people!
Slide into our DMs with hot news tips, or send them anonymously to rangemedia4all@proton.me
Luke Baumgarten @lukebaumgarten.bsky.social Writer & organizer. Building @rangemedia.co & Spokane Workers Cooperative. Support local news https://rangemedia.co
Matthieu Queloz @matthieu-queloz.bsky.social Philosopher, author of *The Ethics of Conceptualization: Tailoring Thought and Language to Need* (OUP 2025) and *The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering* (OUP 2021)
Hugo Mercier @hugoreasoning.bsky.social Evolutionary and cognitive psychologist. Author, Not Born Yesterday (http://tinyurl.com/yyh929ns), The Enigma of Reason (http://tinyurl.com/6hbpn84).
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Dan Sperber @dansperber.bsky.social 
Christine M. Korsgaard @cmkorsgaard.bsky.social Research Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. 
Victor Kumar @victorkumar.bsky.social Associate professor of philosophy at Boston University | A BETTER APE (OUP) | Writes about morality, progress, evolution, culture | He/him
David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social Philosopher (Uehiro Oxford), Author (Wittgenstein's Poker, Would You Kill The Fat Man, Parfit, etc.), Podcaster (Philosophy Bites, Social Science Bites). Journalist. Latest book, Death In A Shallow Pond.
Philosophy Toronto (Online) @philosophyto.bsky.social We're online! 🌎 Canada's largest public #philosophy group hosting daily talks, reading groups, discussions + more. Contact us to collaborate! 🍁 #PublicPhilosophy
➡ Join us on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/the-toronto-philosophy-meetup/
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Nathan Ballantyne @nathanballantyne.bsky.social Prof of Philosophy, Cognition, and Culture at @ASU. Research on bias, expertise, disagreement, and open-minded thinking. Author of Knowing Our Limits (Oxford).
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
@cfi-cambridge.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social An interdisciplinary research centre at University of Cambridge exploring the nature, ethics and impact of artificial intelligence (AI).
https://www.lcfi.ac.uk/ 
Marianna B. Ganapini @mbergam.bsky.social Philosophy of mind and AI. Associate prof at UNCC (opinions are my own)
Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social –Arts and Letters for the Modern Age–
Published by a former (retired) philosophy professor of 30 years.
cathoderayzone.com
https://www.chromaartanddesignmiami.com/
Farbod Akhlaghi @farbod-a.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Moral Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin. Former Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. DPhil (PhD) from Oxford. Moral Philosophy & Metaphysics. #philosophy #PhilSky
Ray Monk @raymodraco.bsky.social I've written biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell and Robert J. Oppenheimer and am currently preoccupied with climate change. My passions include music and ancient churches. I am proud to be a volunteer tour guide at Salisbury Cathedral.
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
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
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.
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.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
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/
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.
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Andy Carvin @acarv.in Director of investigations, @weareoversight.bsky.social. Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
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
David Carroll @davidcarroll.org admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
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
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
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
🕸️ snurb.info
🐘 @snurb@aoir.social
⛔ @snurb_dot_info
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
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
Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info 🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social Senior Analyst @Graphika.
I have opinions of my own.
Omer Arvili @omerarvili.bsky.social מעצבנת דעת קהל
Tessa Knight @awildknight.bsky.social Researching disinformation for DFRLab | She/her | DMs usually open | tessaknight132@protonmail.com
EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
Research Lead Kawaakibi Foundation
KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
Interview requests: press@kawaakibi.org
Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social researcher studying digital threats; society and tech.
www.ngamita.xyz
Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com Postdoc with Stanford's Tech Impact and Policy Center
(@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social). Past: Indiana University / Observatory on Social Media.
Societal impacts of AI within the information ecosystem.
🧨 matthewdeverna.com
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.
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Mike Cowburn @mikecowburn.bsky.social Research Fellow, @demolaw.bsky.social, Zeppelin Universität
Intra-Party Politics | Candidate Selection | Legislative Politics | PolComm | Primaries
Author: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries https://tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx
www.mikecowburn.com
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.
Jerome @jeromegill.com I build tech for charities and NGOs and the private sector, usually in the sustainability/environmental space
Interested in tech, modern propaganda, and cleaning up information spaces
Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Univ of Cambridge
Founder & Chair, Cambridge Disinformation Summit
Research: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
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
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.
Thierry Breton @thierrybreton.bsky.social Entrepreneur. Teacher. Policy Maker 🇫🇷🇪🇺
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
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
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
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/
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
Lauren Feldman @laurenfeldman.bsky.social Professor of Journalism & Media Studies @ Rutgers. I study climate change communication, partisan media and misinformation, and comedy and social change.
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/feldman-lauren
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
Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social Social scientist @yalesph.bsky.social exploring how we form beliefs and make sense of health information in the age of AI. Author of Misguided. https://amzn.to/48zTs59
https://matthewfacciani.substack.com
www.matthewfacciani.com
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social Heading the Computational Social Science group within SynoSys & ifK at TU Dresden, where we study how online information environments impact public discourse and develop alternatives that benefit democracy. Views are my own. https://synosys.github.io/
Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other
Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social Senior digital investigation journalist covering online mis- and disinformation for AFP • Formerly with PolitiFact and the Raleigh News & Observer • Duke alum • “The internet folks” - Stephen Colbert
https://factcheck.afp.com/Bill-MCCARTHY
Joe Pierre, MD @psychunseen.bsky.social Academic psychiatrist at UCSF and author of the Psych Unseen blog at Psychology Today and the book False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True (Oxford University Press, 2025) drjoepierre.com
Claire Wardle @cward1e.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social PhDing on listening and mass personalization @MediaLSE @MediaLab @Shorensteinctr+ Iran Evin prison (6yrs). co-wrote ‘Information Disorder’, wrote 'Web We Have to Save'.
Anuj Chopra @anujchopra.bsky.social Disinformation correspondent, AFP. New America Fellow. Based in Washington D.C. Past lives: New York, Riyadh, Kabul, Hong Kong, Pune. Ex-Knight Bagehot and Dart Center Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University. Scoops, food recs? anuj.chopra@afp.com
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
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Bill Marczak @billmarczak.org senior researcher at @citizenlab.ca
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*
Markian Kuzmowycz @markiank.bsky.social 
Seana Davis @seanadavis.bsky.social Information integrity | Exploring AI Risk Mitigation
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.
Dov H. Levin @dovlevin.bsky.social Asso. Professor of IR, HKU. Foreign election interference (& interventions)|Strategic Public Diplomacy| FP preferences| US Foreign Policy| War & Peace. Book on foreign election interference "Meddling in the Ballot Box" at OUP. Opinions are mine only
Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social Journo, academic, author. Journalism & Crime/ Journalism & Celebrity cover earliest historic origins to present and links to politics. Also focus on networked constructed reality and misinformation. Recent for The Times, Byline Times, Press Gazette
kalim @akhmxt.bsky.social Thinking about thinking machines, and I also happen to do visual investigations.
Prev: @cen4infores and @altnews [India]
https://kalimahmed.com
Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network https://transsafety.network/
Monitoring organised harm against trans people in the UK.
Donate: https://ko-fi.com/transsafetynetwork