David Hobson @dhobso.bsky.social Research Engineer @mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social | Computational Social Science, NLP, Computational Narrative Understanding He/him https://davidghobson1.github.io/
@chrispyross.bsky.social @chrispyross.bsky.social Senior analyst @ meo.ca | big fan of climate policy and Canadian politics | Calgarian in Montreal
https://chrispross.github.io/
Ben @bendavidsteel.bsky.social I like democracy, policy, complexity, computer art, and mountains:):)
phd css @ mcgill and researcher @mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social
bendavidsteel.github.io/?ref=bsky
Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social World-leading AI research institute. | Institut de recherche en IA de renommée mondiale.
Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social Social psychologist at NYU-Stern, working to roll back the phone-based childhood. Please visit anxiousgeneration.com & afterbabel.com 
Anja Karadeglija @anjakaradeglija.bsky.social Reporter covering tech policy and politics at the Canadian Press Ottawa bureau. @cdnpress.bsky.social
Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social 🏴🇨🇦 Technology and Democracy Reporter at Canada's National Observer. Creator of Civic Searchlight.
Contact: rwhite.12 (Signal)
Carleton University @carleton.ca Located in Canada's capital, Carleton University is a dynamic research and teaching institution, with a tradition of leading change and promoting innovation.
www.carleton.ca
Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social Ex nat’l security official. NYT bestselling author. Was “Anonymous” — now encouraging people to take their masks off. Also, aspiring Ghostbuster. Speaking out daily @ www.DEFIANCE.News
The Logic @thelogic.co Canada's business and tech newsroom
thelogic.co
David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social Logic reporter, Ottawa Citizen and Canadian Press alum. I cover Ottawa, cybersecurity and defence, telecom, space, health, infrastructure and whatever else needs doing. Signal: @davidreevely.68
Check My Ads @checkmyads.org We're the independent digital advertising watchdog. We are building a transparent and fair digital advertising market.
Jennifer Quaid (she/elle) @profjquaid.bsky.social Prof de droit / Law prof, Droit civil, University of Ottawa.
Research interests: Business accountability, competition law/ concurrence, AI & digital economy, organizational criminal liability/entreprises & droit pénal, anticorruption, general criminal law
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
The Canadian Shield Institute @canadianshieldinstitute.ca Developing public policy to fortify Canada's sovereignty for the 21st Century. Learn more at canadianshieldinstitute.ca
Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com We're a campaign to focus attention and resources on building information technologies that serve the interests of people over companies.
It's time to free social media from billionaire control.
Join: FreeOurFeeds.com | Donate: https://gofund.me/2e144bae
Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social
@modalfoundation.bsky.social and @freeourfeeds.com, also information, media and journalism, rights, arts. Former ED @globalvoices.org
Tech Justice Law @techjusticelaw.bsky.social Reclaiming humanity in the digital age by bringing justice to individuals and communities harmed by tech products.
https://techjusticelaw.org/
Montreal Institute for Global Security @migsinstitute.bsky.social MIGS is an independent and non-partisan think tank working to build democratic resilience to authoritarian threats.
https://migsinstitute.org/
Michael McGrath @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social EU Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection
Project Liberty @projectliberty.io Project Liberty builds solutions that help people take back control of their lives in the digital age by reclaiming a voice, choice, and stake in a better internet. Find out more at https://projectliberty.io. 
Amber Mac @ambermac.bsky.social Host, The AmberMac Show with Jeff MacArthur, Award-winning tech and AI podcaster, keynote speaker, event moderator, bestselling author, and radio/tv host (mom of teen boy + 2 rescue pups)
VassB @vassb.bsky.social policy designer + writer
I run the Canadian Shield Institute (@canadianshieldinstitute.ca), where we make sovereignty make sense.
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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.
Victoria Forum @victoriaforum.bsky.social 
CJAD 800 Montreal @cjad800.bsky.social News and views from Quebec's leading English Newstalk radio station. Listen live: 800 AM or 107.3 HD-2 in Montreal, on iHeartRadio, at CJAD800.com or ask your smart speaker to play CJAD 800
Emma Wilkie @emma-wilkie.bsky.social 
Peter MacLeod @petermacleod.bsky.social Principal, masslbp.com | Helping people shape the policies that shape their lives | Citizens’ Assemblies + Democratic Innovation | Co-author, democracyssecondact.org
Media Ecosystem Observatory @meo-cdmrn.bsky.social The Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) and the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN)
Emilia Belliveau @e-belliveau.bsky.social Climate / energy transition / political ecology person. Still trying to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Program Manager @EnvironmentalDefence.ca - views my own
Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social Empowering citizens to advocate for pollution pricing and climate-aligned finance. Building a liveable world since September 2010. Focus is our superpower.
canada.citizensclimatelobby.org
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)
Jessica Johnson @jessicajohnson.bsky.social Co-author, “What Should the CBC Be?” (@mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social 2025). Adjunct professor @uoft.bsky.social. Former EIC @thewalrusca.bsky.social. I post here about writing, journalism and books.
Spitfire News @spitfirenews.com A newsletter from @kattenbarge.bsky.social about internet culture, politics, and media. Subscribe today for free!
Xin Han @xinhan.bsky.social Asst. Prof @Montana State| Development, Governance, Human-AI-Nature Interactions, Resilience, Crisis Mgmt #Interdisciplinary#Community#Ecosystem ☀️🌱🌳https://sites.google.com/view/xinhan
Mathieu Lavigne @mathieulavigne.bsky.social Political scientist studying social media, misinformation & elections at McGill
Aengus Bridgman @abridgman.bsky.social Political scientist @McGill studying online political participation, misinformation, and the information ecosystem. Director of the Media Ecosystem Observatory
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social Associate Professor & Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic at the University of Colorado Law School. Working at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights.
Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
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 🏳️🌈
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
SFU's Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology @fcatatsfu.bsky.social The Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology comprises five schools and programs at the intersection of media, art, culture and technology.
http://www.sfu.ca/fcat
Carina Albrecht @carinaalbrecht.bsky.social 
Yuriko Furuhata @underground259.bsky.social Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats --
Montreal
https://sterneworks.org
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Stefanie Duguay @dugstef.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab (digslab.net). Posts and opinions are my own.
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Meryl Alper @merylalper.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication Studies @ Northeastern. Technology, kids, disability, mental health. BOOKS: Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT 2014) Giving Voice (MIT 2017), Kids Across the Spectrums (MIT 2023) https://bit.ly/kidsacrossthespectrums
Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social Journal for internet studies. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @hiigberlin.bsky.social & @cais-research.bsky.social in cooperation with @create-glasgow.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social IN3 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social & Skytte Institute UT
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
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.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Joris van Hoboken @jvh.bsky.social (he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights.
@ivir-uva.bsky.social
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
Gabby Miller @gabbymiller.bsky.social Tech reporter @ Politico
Covering AI + Congress
Sarah Kay Wiley @sarahkwiley.bsky.social Tech policy and litigation at the intersection of 1A, monetization, and competition. Currently at Tech Justice Law Project.
Lawyer sometimes.
Adrenaline junkie always.
Would rather be trail running.
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Zamaan Qureshi @zamaan.bsky.social Campaigns/Policy @designitforus.bsky.social. Alum: @accountabletech.bsky.social, @ausis.bsky.social, Real Facebook Oversight Board, @markey.senate.gov, @casten.house.gov. YNWA | 🇺🇸🇬🇧 | he/him | opinions my own
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Yaël Eisenstat @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social Been called alarmist, Cassandra & “someone with the resume of a 70 yr old man”. Pro-dog & pro-democracy. Working on tech accountability to safeguard democracy in the digital age at Cybersafety Research Center (NYU).
Personal website: www.yaeleisenstat.com
Imran Ahmed @imranahmed.bsky.social CEO & Founder of Center for Countering Digital Hate
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
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 Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Claire Atkin @catthekin.checkmyads.org Co-founder of Check My Ads, the adtech watchdog. Please send me protopian fiction.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
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.
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Eve Gaumond @evegaumond.bsky.social Scholar - Law & tech
Chercheuse - Droit & techno
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
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
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Mark Scott @markscott.bsky.social Senior Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative. Weekly newsletter: www.digitalpolitics.co
Henry Tuck @henrytuck.bsky.social Director of Digital Policy @isdglobal.bsky.social
Owen Bennett @owbennett.bsky.social Now: Independent consultant and Fellow at the Hertie School.
Then: Head of International Online Safety at Ofcom; Senior Policy Manager at Mozilla.
Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social CEO of @dcnorg.bsky.social working to advance the future of trusted news & entertainment, living through AI-driven disruption.
#HoldTheLine #PressFreedom. @jason_kint on X, 20yrs leading major sports sites
Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law 
David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com Editor, McClelland & Stewart. Author. Writer. General purpose factotum. Lego enthusiast. PhD in political science, just in case.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social ananny.org
- Media technologies & production cultures
- How sociotechnical systems enact theories of press freedom & “the public”
- GenAI as a public problem
Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism, USC Annenberg
Always 🇨🇦
Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.
https://knightcolumbia.org/
Camille François @camillefrancois.bsky.social Professor, Columbia University School of Int'l & Public Affairs. Tech Exec, previously w/ Graphika, Niantic, Google. I work on online trust, safety and innovation. I’ve been called "most optimistic person looking at the darkest corners of the Internet" :)