Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social Disrupting power since 2015
Karishma Patel @karishmapatel.bsky.social Journalist | Prev: BBC Newsreader & Middle East Journalist | ‘Cultures of London’ (Bloomsbury 2024) | MPhil (Cambridge Uni) | Rep: Peters Fraser + Dunlop | Views my own.
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Alice Thwaite @alicelthwaite.bsky.social Ethics by design.
Also likes: swimming, sewing, walking outside, and electronic music.
Based in London, UK.
RightsCon @rightscon.org 💫The world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age
📆 Taipei and online, Feb 24-27, 2025
Adam Pickering @adamleepickering.bsky.social Policy Lead and Senior Governance Adviser in the Civil Society & Civic Space Department @ FCDO
Civitates - The European Democracy Fund @civitates.bsky.social Civitates is a philanthropic initiative for democracy and solidarity in Europe. We are a donor-led effort supporting independent civil society organisations and public interest media outlets.
Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com Senior Lecturer @livuni. Conflict reporting, ethics, witnessing and the affective/emotional dimensions of war reporting. An ed @ Media, War & Conflict. British Academy Fellow. Cat dad.
Alastair Otter @alastairotter.bsky.social Editor of The Outlier, data communications and visualisation expert. theoutlier.co.za
Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social Dog loving socialist. Free Palestine. Cape Town is my home. My “identities” are indivisible not intersectional.
The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social Non-partisan civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy 🇺🇸 #PressFreedom #BlockTheMerger
mediaanddemocracyproject.org
All our links: linktr.ee/FixMediaNow
Peter Lundberg @peterlundberg.bsky.social Executive Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) Lund, Sweden. Follow us at:
www.rwi.lu.se www.icmd.se
Sinclair Cornell @sinclaircornell.bsky.social Senior International Development / Media / Communications Advisor
Tirlittan @tirlittan.bsky.social Observing/ learning/Asia/Afghanistan/Nordic/mediadevelopment/exilemedia/holistic safety/tech&innovation/art&migration&immart.dk
Linda Wood @lindasolomonwood.bsky.social Journalist. Publisher. Founder. Canada's National Observer https://www.nationalobserver.com
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Sam Guzik @samguzik.com product lead @wnyc + senior expert advisor @FTI
http://samguzik.com | he/him
Ben Smith @semaforben.bsky.social Semafor EIC, author of "Traffic" out May 2
Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com Founded MoneySavingExpert, @moneyandmentalhealth.org, (ish) the Martin Lewis Money Show ITV & Martin Lewis Podcast
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
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.
carlosmartinezserna @cmdelaserna.bsky.social Director of Programs @pressfreedom - Human rights, music enthusiast
Peter Micek @lawyerpants.bsky.social Tinker, lawyer, rocker, talker. New York based. California state of mind. Work at @accessnow teach @Columbia play @ironichipsters
Summer Lopez @selopez.bsky.social Chief Program Officer, Free Expression @PENAmerica | Former USAID | she/her | Views my own.
The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation @daphne.foundation
Light after darkness 16/11/2017
www.daphne.foundation is a non-profit fighting for truth & justice. We started @PILN.bsky.social to support public interest litigation & @amphoramedia.bsky.social to make investigative journalism more dynamic & resilient.
Ricardo Gutiérrez @molenews1.bsky.social General Secretary of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the largest journalists' organisation in Europe. Senior lecturer at ULB. Member of the Executive Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).
www.europeanjournalists.org
Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social We are a collaborative journalism network devoted to pursuing the work of silenced reporters around the world.
https://forbiddenstories.org/
Julie Posetti @julieposetti.bsky.social Global Director of Research, International Center for Journalists; Professor of Journalism, City, University of London. Board member, Independent Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM). Research Associate @ RISJ, University of Oxford. Australian in Oxford.
Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social Publisher and Co-Founder OCCRP. Creating a global space where reporters can cover corruption and organized crime.
Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social Human rights lawyer.
Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social Policy wonk at Index on Censorship and co-chair of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition. Works on FoEx, Anti-SLAPP and digital rights. Loves Joan Didion, Dinosaurs 🦕 & My Bloody Valentine. Lives in Glasgow. He/Him @indexoncensorship.org
Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org A publication of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Reports covers thought leadership in journalism—winner of the Bart Richards Media Criticism Award and Mirror Awards.
https://niemanreports.org/
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social The Tow Center hosts a variety of research projects that explore the intersection of journalism and technology 
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social CEO Open Knowledge Foundation - Lawyer - Internationalist 
ICIJ @icij.org Stories that rock the world. We expose wrongdoing so the world can make it right. Find us at ICIJ.org. #UberFiles #EricssonList #PandoraPapers #FinCENFiles #PanamaPapers
Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social Worked over 2 decades with Human Rights Watch & International Crisis Group. Subscribe to my free newsletter, "International Affairs for Normal People": https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/
Other links: https://linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
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
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social Inventor of WWW
Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org
Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org
Founder w3.org
My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
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.
✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social TCU is a community network gathering #DigitalRights defenders working on tech and security issues impacting human rights, journalism, civil society & social justice. Check out our job board, events and knowledge center. https://www.digitalrights.community
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Sue Valentine @suevalentine.bsky.social Former journalist. History, context & accuracy matter. As do simple acts of kindness. Ordinary people can change history.
The Continent @thecontinent.org The Continent is Africa's most widely read newspaper. Get the most recent edition delivered for free on:
WhatsApp: bit.ly/4b2gpfI
Signal: bit.ly/TCSignal
Telegram: t.me/continentnews
Email: read@thecontinent.org
Donate: http://bit.ly/3IYcp6X
Paul Watson 🌍 @paulmwatson.com Web developer born in the last millennia. Former vice-chair somersetstrikers.co.za. South African. 1/64th Irish.
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Jens Modvig @jensmodvig.bsky.social Senior physician, Chair of the Board, United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture, former chair, UN Committee against Torture
Social Finance UK @socialfinance.bsky.social We help you design, fund and scale better solutions to complex social problems.
Michael Etzel @etzel.bsky.social #ImpInv guy at Bridgespan
Erika Haskins @erikahaskins.bsky.social Founder | Investor | Fundraiser
Moving mountains & money for enduring impact.
Economic Recovery Corps
SonderVC, Intripid
📍Boston, MA / Portland, ME
#impactinvesting #impinv #econdev #ownershipeconomy #philanthropy #financialinclusion
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
EEA and Norway Grants @eeanorwaygrants.bsky.social Funding projects for a better #Europe. Iceland, Liechtenstein & Norway's contribution to reducing disparities & strengthening bilateral relations.
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT and author of the Blog, Constitutionally Speaking. I am not a journalist. Hopeful that everyone on this app will read before commenting.
Signal @signal.org Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time. https://signal.org/donate/
Algorithmic Justice League @ajlunited.bsky.social Join the Algorithmic Justice League in the movement towards equitable and accountable AI.
Support our work at http://ajl.org/take-action 🚀
linktr.ee/ajlunited
Tech Oversight Project @techoversight.bsky.social The Tech Oversight Project is a nonprofit dedicated to holding Big Tech accountable by passing comprehensive antitrust, privacy protections, and children's safety legislation.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter: dispatch.techoversight.org
Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
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
John Stupart @john.africandefence.net Co-founder, African Defence Review
Newsletters Editor, Daily Maverick
Newsletters || Defence
Email: jstupart@africandefence.net
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
Andrew Fraser @arfness.bsky.social Opinions. Comms. OSINT. Analysis. Marketing strat. Some snark. Radical apanthropist.
NB: It's probably more complicated than you think - whatever it is.
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.
https://linktr.ee/opensecrets_za
Kerry Cullinan @kerrycullinan.bsky.social Cape Town-based health journalist. 🇿🇦 Passionate about people's right to live with dignity. Deputy editor of Geneva-based Health Policy Watch. https://healthpolicy-watch.news/
Roné McFarlane @rownsterr.bsky.social Education PhD candidate King's College London | Education activist | Policy nerd | Teacher at heart | Undercover journo | Astrant | Roné not Rone
Josh Budlender @joshbudlender.bsky.social Postdoc at SALDRU, University of Cape Town: Labour & Development Economics.
Firms and wages and structural transformation; programme evaluation; a bit of econ history & social policy.
And some 🇿🇦 politics :)
https://www.joshbudlender.co.za
MyANC @myanc.bsky.social African National Corruption #Parody
Here for a good time. Not a long time.
Celebrating 30 Years of Corruption.
120 Years of Gaslighting.
Chief Albert Luthuli House
Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦
Jack Calland @jackcalland.bsky.social Our goal lies far in the distance, clearly visible. PhD in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government & Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Working on employment & social protection. 🇿🇦 🇬🇧
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. 
Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social Editor of The Progress Playbook: https://theprogressplaybook.com
We focus on proven climate and sustainable development solutions.
Email me for collaboration opportunities: nick.hedley@theprogressplaybook.com
Elena Leuschner @elenaleuschner.bsky.social Working on political participation, protest, responsiveness, and public opinion
PostDoc @ University of Münster w Daniel Bischof
Previously PhD @ University of Gothenburg
https://elenaleuschner.github.io
ALT Advisory @altadvisory.africa An African-rooted public interest consultancy based in South Africa and Kenya, and partnering with change-makers around the world.
Find our work: altadvisory.africa.
Clive Simpkins @clivesimpkins.bsky.social Anti Trump-Musk-MAGA
🇿🇦 SouthAfrican veteran strategic communications coach. Still helping folks make the most of their best. Whether interpersonally, in any media, presenting, or public speaking.
Love what I do, do what I love.
#RescueCatDadx3
Susanindenver @susanindenver.bsky.social Democracy and human rights, media development, and civil society strengthening. PhD with @UoW_CAMRI in London. Research and write about #mediadev. Lover of shoegaze, dreampop, and urban gardening.
Ilias Ism @il.ly 🧑💻 ranking sites by day, breaking prod by night
🪄 magicspace.co seo that actually works
🔥 seoroast.co telling you why yours doesn't
🤖 linkdr.com link building on autopilot
🦋 bluesky: @airfry.bot @blueskystarterpack.com @saveth.is
Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com Sign up for my newsletter 👉 http://sideprojectmvp.com for tips & tricks from someone who has built 120 side projects (https://iworkedon.com/@mubashariqbal).
🏡 - https://mubs.me
Claudio Cesarano @clacesarano.bsky.social Senior Manager on Tech at Civitates - The European Democracy Fund (@civitates.bsky.social)
🫴 We support civil society working on tech regulation and building a better Internet
🔙 Formerly: OSF | ALTER-EU | Diritto Di Sapere 
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social We are a group of journalists & scholars in policy & economics working at the vanguard of antimonopoly to achieve victories that empower everyone. Learn more: openmarketsinstitute.org 
Myria Georgiou @myriageorgiou.bsky.social Media and Communications Prof, LSE; digital cities and migration; identity and solidarities; a Londoner and a migrant.
@desfreedman.bsky.social @desfreedman.bsky.social 
Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social Social / cultural / political / media analysis
Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social
📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage
All views socially & culturally constructed.
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 🇨🇦
Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education, and service.
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Damian Tambini @damiantam.bsky.social Author of ‘Media Freedom’. Tech, journalism, media reform.
@robinmansell.bsky.social @robinmansell.bsky.social 
Manuel Puppis @manuelpuppis.ch Professor of Media Structures & Governance at DCM, University of Fribourg. Vice-President Swiss Federal Media Commission.
Doing comparative research on media policy, platform governance, digitalization of the public sphere, Swiss media system.
@natalihelberger.bsky.social @natalihelberger.bsky.social 
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: Intelligent Machines, AI Inside. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social LSE journalism professor
I run the LSE Polis Journalism and AI project
Hammer