Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social Southern Africa Correspondent at The Guardian. Brit abroad.
Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com Investigations Correspondent, The Guardian | Tips: henry.dyer@theguardian.com/henrydyer.01 (Signal) | Interested in Politics/Media/🚂/CofE
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/henry-dyer
http://direthoughts.com
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News. 
Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Study horrible things that happen to people who don't deserve it, write books, overuse sarcasm. Lviv-Haifa-Jerusalem-Madison-New Haven-Washington-Bologna.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
heather.stewart@theguardian.com
Emily K. M. Scott @emilykmscott.bsky.social Associate Professor, researcher, writer, advisor | humanitarianism, conflict, protection, IHL, health, migration & the Middle East | mostly 🇸🇾🇱🇧 🇯🇴 | podcast co-host | #fulbright | emilykmscott.org
Previously MSF, Carter Center, UNDP, GAC,…
Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social Washington Post tech reporter
San Francisco
Defense tech and AI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gerrit-de-vynck/
Signal: GerritD.27
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
Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
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
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
Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
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
Heidi Tworek @heiditworek.bsky.social Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Emil Archambault @emilarchambault.bsky.social Associate Fellow, Center for Security & Defense / Zentrum für Sicherheit & Verteidigung, @dgap.org
Postdoc, Durham University.
Remote war, armed drones, OSINT / guerre à distance, drones armés, enquêtes OSINT.
Personal account, EN/FR/DE
Carlos Diaz Ruiz @carlosdiazruiz.com Associate Professor at Hanken in Finland. I write about the consumer culture and advertising markets that allow disinformation to thrive on social media.
Author of the book "Market-Oriented Disinformation Research."
https://www.carlosdiazruiz.com
Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor @USC-ISI
🤖 I investigate malicious activity on social media networks 🕵🏼
Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social Professor, journalist, political analyst, cynical optimist —- Public speaker via London Speakers Bureau --- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@scottlucasworldview
Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com Adjunct Professor in YUL, YOW 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Propaganda & Slopaganda, Reputation, Credibility, Legitimacy, Trustworthiness; MBA Marketing, Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility, Crisis Mgmt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com
Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff, with some occasional bleating about sport or sci-fi. Opinions are not my employer's.
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
Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir
Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host on the New Books Network. Author of The Brush Contact Substack.
Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social Prof. of IR. Director, New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway | Co-Editor: Media, War and Conflict journal | Co-author: Strategic Narratives | Book series editor: AI Politics
Matthew Sussex @matthewsussex.bsky.social Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, SDSC @ANU. Russia / info ops / hybrid / Aus security policy / Indo-Pac. Usual disclaimers.
Magda Long @magslong.bsky.social Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Tony Ingesson @tonyingesson.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
Jayson Harsin @jaysonharsin.bsky.social Professor, American U. Paris. Dir., Ctr 4 Media, Comm, & Global Change. @ topical x-roads of Political Deception, Persuasion, Influence, gender,Economic Rights. For my recent publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1gK3IjoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi
Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com PhD UCL SSEES, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist at EUObserver, outdoor research fellow.
Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social Political Science, Information Warfare, Political Communication
Mark Jacobson @drmarkjacobson.bsky.social Historian of political and psychological warfare; Senior Fellow, The Pell Center at Salve Regina University; co-host of the Active Measures Newsletter Podcast and host of “You May Have Heard,” Army and Navy vet, and proud University of 〽️ichigan grad.
Joe McReynolds @joemcreynolds.bsky.social Japan urbanism: Emergent Tokyo (2022). China-US NatSec: China's Evolving Military Strategy (2016), China's Evolving Information Warfare (2025). 摸着石头过河, learning as I go.
James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Paul Lashmar @paullashmar.bsky.social Dr Paul Lashmar, Investigative Journalist, author and Emeritus Fellow at CityStGs UoL, retired Associate Professor. Book: Drax of Drax Hall: Landed Gentry, Sugar and Slavery (Pluto March 2025). I RT when interested not necessarily because I agree.
Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks for drug safety; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal.
Director of Human Alignment and Sin Eater, @skywatch.blue
Desertcore 🇪🇺🌐 @desertcore.eurosky.social Keep on fighting autocracy and injustice worldwide
Julien Barnes-Dacey @jbdacey.bsky.social MENA programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Europe-based, once upon a time in Syria and Egypt
Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social video game newsletter at readergrev.com
news editor at POLITICO
former editor at Launcher and WaPo
mikhailklimentov.01 on Signal
Hayder Al Shakeri @haydersh.bsky.social Research Fellow @ChathamHouse @CH_MENAP. Cautiously optimistic 🇮🇶 @AUB_Lebanon @SOAS. All views are my own. 🇵🇸🇱🇧
Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Associate fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Yazan Badran @yazanbadran.bsky.social Assistant professor, media, journalism, politics, Syria/MENA/SWANA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO
I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home.
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran
@charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social - S Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Jerome Drevon @jeromed.bsky.social Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Last book on HTS's rise to power in Syria, Transformed by the People
Karim Elgendy @karimelgendy.bsky.social Director of @carboun.bsky.social, Associate Fellow at Chatham House and Middle East Institute. 🔭 Energy Geopolitics and Climate Diplomacy in the Middle East and East Med.
Kristen McTighe @kristenmctighe.bsky.social Recovering foreign correspondent. Previously in Cairo, Istanbul, Tunis, Madrid & Paris. 2x cancer survivor🎗️
Ramzi Kaiss | رمزي قيس @ramzikaiss.bsky.social Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch @HRW.org
Rachel Chason @rchason.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com West Africa bureau chief, based in 🇸🇳
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rchasonwp
Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social It doesn’t matter.
Anne Pellegrino @annepellegrino.bsky.social Media programs at Planet 🛰️
Lover of satellite imagery and admirer of digital investigations
Danny Hajjar @dannyghajjar.bsky.social 🇱🇧
Journalist covering Arabic music
Co-host of the Shik Shak Shook Ones podcast
Bylines: NYTimes, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, NPR, The Grammys, Billboard Arabia, GQ Middle East
https://www.dannyhajjar.com
John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
Greg Miller @gregpmiller.bsky.social International Investigations for The Washington Post. Based in London. Author of The Apprentice, Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy. greg.miller@washpost.com; signal/whatsapp: +1 202-494-1545.
Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social Muckraker, traveler, adventuress. East and Southern Africa Bureau Chief for the Washington Post. Email: katharine.houreld at washpost.com
Francesca Ebel @francescaebel.bsky.social I write about Russia and Ukraine for The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/francesca-ebel/
Ex North Africa correspondent.
Abbie Cheeseman @cheesemanab.bsky.social Middle East for @washingtonpost.com in Beirut. Before: 2024 Stern fellow in DC, freelance Mid East corro/investigative reporter. Previous life at @airwars.bsky.social. Not the one on TikTok. | Signal: abbiecheeseman.58
Reem Akkad @reemakkad.bsky.social Senior Editor, Washington Post International Desk
Adam Taylor @mradamtaylor.bsky.social Washington Post reporter covering Trump administration foreign policy with a focus on the State Department. Adam.taylor@washpost.com or Mradamtaylor.01 on signal
Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
Terrence McCoy @terrencemccoy.bsky.social Washington Post Rio de Janeiro bureau chief
Telling stories about Brazil, one of the world's most fascinating and beautiful countries.
Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social Staff writer @theatlantic.com covering immigration and the Department of Homeland Security.
Tips? Signal: NickMiroff.78
Humeyra Pamuk @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social @Reuters deputy US foreign policy editor. Eye on State Department. Before: London, Cairo, Dubai & Turkey. @columbiajourn @kocuniversity alum. Personal account.
Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social Political scientist at Johns Hopkins. SWANA, disasters, political violence, ethics, humanitarian crises, qual methods, & Star Wars. Wrote a book a/b Palestinian org evolution & social change in wartime Lebanon: http://bit.ly/3VEw64B. EMT. Opinions my own.
Feroze Sidhwa @ferozesidhwa.org Surgeon, educator, failing martial artist
Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social 📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
Nir Hasson, نير حسون، ניר חסון @nirhasson.bsky.social עיתונאי. כתב "הארץ" בירושלים, כתב לענייני משבר האקלים, כותב גם על ארכיאולוגיה ישראלית. 
Scott Long @scottlong1980.bsky.social He/him, they/them. Alien to myself. Human rights activist, queer rights troublemaker, founded Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Program. Concerns include Palestine, MENA, E Europe, climate. My opinions are my own; but you can buy them at fire sale prices.
Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social Working on surveillance technology, migration, welfare.
Collaborating with public interest newsrooms and human rights orgs.
Bridging and connecting.
Previously at Privacy International, Open Migration, TechPresident.
Willy Lowry @willylowry.bsky.social Senior correspondent for The National covering the US State Department, foreign policy and the Middle East. Host of The Interview with Willy Lowry.
Shawky Seif El Nasr @shawky1.bsky.social UN Human Rights. Libya currently.
John Muyskens @johnmuyskens.bsky.social Graphics reporter at The Washington Post focusing on climate change and environmental justice. Cambridge, MA
Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social Journalist for The Atlantic Monthly, author, generator of highly disposable matter.
Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social Ragebait author at Zeteo
Past: Senior reporter at The Independent, senior media reporter at The Daily Beast.
Tips/hate mail: justin@zeteonews.com
You can also hit me up on Signal at justinbaragona.85
Rex Brynen @rexbrynen.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, McGill University. Middle East politics, peacebuilding, humanitarian response, urban warfare, intelligence, serious games. https://paxsims.wordpress.com/
Mona Shtaya 🍉 @monashtaya.bsky.social Tech policy | Human being at large
Vanessa Newby @vfnewby.bsky.social Asst Prof | Leiden University | Author of ‘Peacekeeping in South Lebanon’ | International Relations | UN | Gender | WPS | Middle East | Peacekeeping | WIIS Netherlands | CCL | Imm Joudeh | She/Her | Website: vfnewby.com
Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; President, American Society of International Law; Executive Editor at Just Security; former Special Counsel at U.S. Department of Defense. Website: oonahathaway.com.
Mohanad Hage Ali @mohanad.bsky.social MENA politics
Aziz Abu Sarah @azizabusarah.bsky.social Co-Author of bestseller, The Future is Peace, co-founder of Mejdi Tours &InterAct International , Nat Geo Explorer, TED fellow.
Kareem Fahim @kareemf.bsky.social Middle East reporter
Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social Asst Prof, global health. My book "How War Kills": http://tinyurl.com/How-War-Kills
https://yara-asi.com
فلسطين
Fellow, Arab Center DC
Fellow, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
Co-Director, Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights
Meg Kelly @megkelly.bsky.social senior visual forensics reporter
@washingtonpost
tips/ ideas: meg.kelly@washpost.com
usual caveats, dm for whatsapp, signal 
Andrea Mucino @andymucino.bsky.social Communications at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, former Miss West Virginia USA, proud West Virginia University and University College Dublin alumna
Media inquiries: mucinosa@unhcr.org
Cédric Vidonne @cvidonne.bsky.social Information Management Officer at UNHCR specialized in #DataViz and #maps. Love #rstats stuff, especially making charts with #ggplot2.
Kent Page @kentpage.bsky.social 🇺🇳 #UN #UNICEF #EducationCannotWait - Chief, Advocacy & Communication. Education Cannot Wait is the Global Fund for education in emergencies & protracted crises in the United Nations.🇺🇳
Melissa Fleming @melissafleming.un.org I lead communications at the United Nations. I promote peace, human rights & a healthy planet and advocate for humane information ecosystems.
Author: A Hope More Powerful than the Sea.
Podcast host: Awake at Night.
Gisella Lomax @gisellalomax.bsky.social Information Integrity and Digital Protection. I work for the UN Refugee Agency - UNHCR - leading our response to misinformation, disinformation, online hate speech. Currently based in London
Lilli Tnaib @lillitnaib.bsky.social Strategic communications and outreach focusing on refugees and humanitarian issues. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
Mark Belinsky @mbelinsky.bsky.social Building products for United Nations Development Programme. Son of refugees. Sometimes cycling across countries. Formerly CEO of Birdi (Acquired) & Digital Democracy.