XOF Research @xofresearch.bsky.social We are an OSINT research organization focused on political technology.
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https://xof-research.org/
James Montague @jamespiotr.bsky.social Journalist and father to a super intelligent alien queen. Author of five books: Engulfed, 1312, The Billionaires Club, Thirty One Nil, When Friday Comes. Co-founder of Delayed Gratification. https://linktr.ee/jamespiotr
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social Reporter covering immigration, homelessness, other stuff, for THE CITY
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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social Doctoral researcher focusing on right-wing extremism @helsinki.fi | ex-Bellingcat Volunteer
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social
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@TPM.bsky.social
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SeditionSleuth @seditionsleuth.bsky.social OSINT Researcher
New Mexico
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
Decoherence Media @decoherence.media Decoherence Media investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
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FashyLeaks: https://fashyleaks.com/
Epstein Network: https://epstein.photos/
wiley cope @wileycope.bsky.social open source researcher & investigative reporter
bylines: @theguardian.com @decoherence.media
wileydcope@proton.me | signal: @wiley.50
Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social I read a lot of court records because I like a good story. Won a Pulitzer a couple times. “A well-known PACER watcher” - Justice Department
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
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@pierrevaux.bsky.social @pierrevaux.bsky.social 
Cassie Miller @cassiemiller.bsky.social Senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Historian. 
Julia Smirnova @jsmirnova.bsky.social Senior researcher for @cemas.io. Disinfo, extremism, technology. Previously, @isdglobal and journalist writing for @spiegel, @zeit, @welt. Alumna @warstudies
Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social Political Research Associates. Social justice research and strategy center since 1981. Publishers of The Public Eye magazine
Joshua Fisher-Birch @jfisherbirch.bsky.social Researcher interested in terrorism, extremism, technology, and political violence. Got lost on the internet while looking for cat photos. Views my own.
Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN) @extremismgaming.bsky.social 🎮 Network of over 155+ members working together across sectors to uncover how terrorist and violent extremist actors exploit gaming, to build resilience in gaming communities, and to use gaming for good. 👾Learn more @ extremismandgaming.org 
Heidi Beirich @heidibeirich.bsky.social Co-Founder // Chief Strategy Officer Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Expert on right-wing extremism. Opinions here are my own. globalextremism.org
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social Professor, researcher, consultant, trainer.
Political violence, social movements, OSINT, (cyber)security, tech & law.
Director @ prosecutionproject.bsky.social & peacejusticestudies.org
Ⓐ/Ⓥdad x 4+🐶🐶
https://michaelloadenthal.academia.edu
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
Maxine Bernstein @maxbernstein.bsky.social Oregonian reporter covering federal court, criminal justice 
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy.
A project of People For the American Way.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
dan solomon @dansolomon.com senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). dogs love me cuz i’m crazy sniffable. he/him
Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Journalist, writer etc — but mostly her dad. AuDHD. Library socialist. Luddite.
Host @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://hauntologies.net
Archives: https://eliaayoub.com
From 🇱🇧. In Brighton, UK
Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social Tech Reporter at Straight Arrow News-mthalen@san.com
-mikaelthalen@protonmail.ch-Signal: mikaelthalen.12
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
daniel sieradski @self.agency fmr. publisher: jewish worker, jewschool + orthodox anarchist. ex-tech lead: nylon, jta news + repair the world. led kol nidre at occupy wall street. holds numerous dubious ordinations. aft+iww. never again to anyone. syracuse, ny.
🔗 https://self.agency
Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social Journalist, author Safety in Solidarity, #NoPasaran, Fascism Today, and Why We Fight.
Bylines: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Yes Magazine, The Baffler, InTheseTimes others.
Tweeting Jewish antifascist memes
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Patrick Strickland @patrickobrienstrickland.com Writer from Texas
Managing editor @inkstickmedia.com
Books: A History of Heartache (2026), You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave (2025), The Marauders (2022) & Alerta! Alerta! (2018)
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
GNET @gnetresearch.bsky.social The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) is an academic research initiative backed by The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a special project delivered by @csns-uk.bsky.social.
Kurt Phillips (ARC Collective) @arccollective.bsky.social Founder of ARC. Board member @antihateca.bsky.social. Middle-aged weight lifter. Snarky, partisan, hack (but often charmingly so). Proudly and unapologetically anti-fascist.
Oliver Mizzi @ollymizzi99.bsky.social Journalist at The New Arab covering the MENA. Sussex and St Andrews alum. Finally got round to substack writing here: https://substack.com/@ollymizzi99 
James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.social CODA | EIC @ Double Sided Media | Mg. Editor @ Left Coast Right Watch | Collector/Researcher @ Chemical Weapons Research Center | Contributor to KISS books | Formerly @ Daily Emerald, The Torch, Village Portland
https://linktr.ee/jcroxton
Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social Editor and writer. Tech critic. Since they are Canadian, would not rule out treachery. Doing work stuff for my local Center for Migrant Worker Rights. Donate to: https://chuffed.org/project/116311-protect-an-open-source-engineer-and-his-family
farce majeure @hongpong.bsky.social Information operations, spinstorms & latent contradictions. #Drupal too! @unicorn.riot producer/reporter/thing doer
tinker poster mailer spry
Juniper @juniperbevensee.bsky.social Lost in a big parameter world.
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Decentralisation / agency / decol
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social media reporter @semafor
Open Measures @openmeasures.io Open Measures is an open-source threat intelligence and social media research platform created to assist those who investigate and track the spread of harmful online content.
🌐 Website: https://openmeasures.io/
📬 Newsletter: https://blog.openmeasures.io/
FRONTLINE @frontlinepbs.bsky.social Award-winning documentaries, podcasts and digital reporting that question, explain and change our world. We answer to no one but you.
Explore our storytelling on PBS or online at pbs.org/frontline, YouTube and in the PBS App.
Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social Journalist @DerSpiegel
Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social I research the white power movement and far right media; member @splcunion.bsky.social; @uwsjmc.bsky.social PhD; tips at jtischauser@protonmail.com
Chicago-style always and forever
https://wisc.academia.edu/JeffTischauserPhD
Megan Squire @megansquire.bsky.social Cyber threat intelligence, investigations. CompSci PhD. Currently at F-Secure. Former @elonuniversity @splcenter
Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org Catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements.
splcenter.org
POPULAR FRONT @popularfront.co 🔥 Live from the frontlines
www.popularfront.co
LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news Coverin' extremism PODCAST: http://bit.ly/3BGThEI NEWS TIPS: leftcoastrightwatch@Proton.me PATREON: http://patreon.com/lcrw DONATE: http://cash.me/$LCRW
Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship.
Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Brenna Smith @brennasmith.bsky.social WSJ visual investigative reporter.
Past: Baltimore Banner, New York Times, & Bellingcat.
Avery Schmitz @averyschmitz.bsky.social Open-source reporting @cnn.com
Views my own | avery.schmitz@cnn.com
Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social I digitally investigate stuff, somehow my findings travel from spreadsheets to international media and research collectives; views are my own.
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Gisela Pérez de Acha @giselilla.bsky.social Open Source Investigative Reporter. Founder and CEO of FactFinder. Formerly teaching OSINT at UC Berkeley. Mexicana. Polyglot. Nerd. More at www.giselaperezdeacha.com
Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social Washington Post investigations reporter
Co-host of Schlock and Awe: https://schlockandawe.substack.com/
Executive Council, Washington-Baltimore News Guild
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
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social special investigative correspondent @texasobserver.org • contributor @coolzonemedia.bsky.social • publisher @proteanmag.com • send tips via Signal: stevanzetti.12
Read & support my work: https://linktr.ee/Stevanzetti
@kylebazgo.bsky.social @kylebazgo.bsky.social I do OSINT stuff. Contributor to award winning investigative journalism.
jennefer harper @jennefer.bsky.social Journalist at @decoherence.media investigating authoritarian movements and exposing far-right networks
Other bylines: @thenewarab.bsky.social and @lcrw.news
Signal: Jennefer.02
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
Rebecca Wind @rebelwindnyc.bsky.social Communications for Guttmacher think tank. Kickboxer, baker, advocate for reproductive health and rights. Views mine.
Rob Hopkins @robintransition.bsky.social Imagination Catalyst & Time Traveller. 'From What Is to What If'. Speaker, podcaster, Transition. 'Field Recordings from the Future'. He/Him. 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' coming soon from Chelsea Green Publishing (May 2025). #imagination #climate
@christinehanna.bsky.social @christinehanna.bsky.social 
Partnership for Southern Equity @psequity.bsky.social Founded in 2008, PSE is a nonprofit organization that advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South. 
Feet in 2 Worlds @fi2w.org Fi2W is a news outlet and journalism training organization for immigrant voices, dedicated to publishing stories by and about immigrants. linktr.ee/fi2w
Public Bank NYC @publicbanknyc.bsky.social A broad-based coalition calling on NYC to divest from Wall Street and establish a public bank, as part of a broader vision for economic and racial justice.
Alexandrea J. Ravenelle @ajravenelle.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Author of Side Hustle Safety Net (UCPress, 2023) and Hustle and Gig (UCPress, 2019) 23-24 Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage
mvslidukvn @maslidukan.bsky.social Filmmaker | Educator | Union Organizer - Latest Film: sundownroad.com - “A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom.” -Claudia Jones
Gregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social humbled by redwoods
Founder + Citizen Observer
@cannabis.observer
Center for Story-based Strategy @storybasedstrategy.bsky.social CSS cultivates imagination spaces where story, grassroots leadership, organizing, and democracy are interwoven strategies to build power.
Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social Paralegal with masters in international maritime law, interested in languages, ethics, governance, environmental protection and human rights. Mythology-loving humanist.- F Zack Schulman @fermentchange.bsky.social
Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social Seasoned extremism reporter at @rawstory.com. Investigations: law enforcement, national security, politics. Contact me at jordan@rawstory.com or jordangreen.03 on Signal. Here for the long haul.
https://www.rawstory.com/u/jordan-green-special-to-raw-story
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
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
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
https://authory.com/AmandaMoore
https://www.turtlediaries.net/
Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social Journalist and Researcher | Reporting and Research on the U.S. Radical Right | Publisher of Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social | Subscribe: https://www.radicalreports.org | Support My Work: https://linktr.ee/reportbywilson
Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social Research, Analysis, and Intelligence on the U.S. Radical Right | Published by Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social | Contact: radicalreportsnewsletter@gmail.com | Newsletter: https://www.radicalreports.org
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com @nbcnews.com Senior Justice reporter, ebike guy.
Read my stuff: http://ryanjreilly.com/
Order my book: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/ryan-j-reilly/sedition-hunters/9781541701809/
Message me on Signal: @ryanjreilly.62
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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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness