Nicole Wong @nicolewong.bsky.social Forever OOO. Formerly US Deputy CTO, also previously at Google, Twitter, Perkins Coie. Now board member for Mozilla Foundation, Tech Talent Project, CalMatters & Open Technology Fund. Currently studying words.
Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Co-founder and journalist at 404media.co
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ROOST @roost.tools We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a non-profit building and maintaining open source, accessible, high-quality, transparent safety tools for digital organizations of all kinds.
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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" :)
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God-is Rivera @godisrivera.bsky.social Strategy lady, ad woman, CSO, Mama, wife,
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Joanna Coles @joannacoles.bsky.social CCO Daily Beast, host Daily Beast podcast w/Samantha Bee; EP The Bold Type
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Michal Lev-Ram @mlevram.bsky.social Editor-at-Large at Fortune. Late adopter & wannabe podcast star. 
Sarah Kate Ellis @sarahkateellis.bsky.social President & CEO of GLAAD. Working to build a better future for the queer youth of tomorrow. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Eileen (╹◡╹) @bumble.blue logician turned ux designer | play-motivated | local-first high priestess
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Malynda Hale @malyndahale.bsky.social Actress | Activist
Creator of #WeNeedToTalk, @blackvoicesheardproject
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Exec. Dir: @thenewevangelicals
Ina Fried @inafried.bsky.social Chief Technology Correspondent at Axios. Huge fan of the sportsball. Also Lego. She/her
Aiplus.Axios.com
Katie Paul @anthropaulicy.bsky.social Anthropologist researching extremism, Big Tech harms, digital black markets and online crime.
Michael Mignano @mignano.bsky.social Startup founder and VC
Mark Scott @markscott.bsky.social Senior Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative. Weekly newsletter: www.digitalpolitics.co
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
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Sarah Frier @sarahfrier.bsky.social In charge of big tech coverage at Bloomberg
Author of NO FILTER: The Inside Story of Instagram
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Scott Belsky @scottbelsky.bsky.social helping the creative world make ideas happen. partner @a24 / founder A24Labs; founder of @Behance, author, product obsessive, angel in startups the world needs.
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
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twitter.com/wagatwe
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sam altman @samasama.bsky.social AI is cool i guess
Codie Sanchez @codiesanchez.bsky.social We should own our communities. Taking back Main Street | https://amzn.to/4hVE992
Future of Privacy Forum @futureofprivacy.bsky.social A catalyst for privacy leadership & scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging tech. Get updates: fpf.org/subscribe
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social Marine biologist, writer, policy nerd. Co-founder Urban Ocean Lab, think tank for the future of coastal cities. In love with climate solutions.
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com
19thnews @19thnews.org The 19th is an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, policy and power. https://19thnews.org/newsletters
Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social The official account of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, advancing AI research, education, policy, and practice to improve the human condition.
Van Jones @vanjones.bsky.social DreamMachine.Org, MagicLabsMedia.com, CNN
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social CEO of Microsoft AI | Author: The Coming Wave | Formerly co-founder at Inflection AI, DeepMind
Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Min Jin Lee @minjinlee.bsky.social New York State Author Laureate 2025-2027. Writer. New Yorker. Late Bloomer.
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social Law prof @Penn, cohost Strict Scrutiny podcast 
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Ellen Pao @ekp.bsky.social CEO of Project Include
early investor, ex-reddit, ex-VC, ex-lawyer
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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.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social Dedicated research monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy.
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
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.
Free Press @freepress.bsky.social We’re a nonpartisan organization fighting for your rights to connect and communicate.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Claire Leibowicz @cleibowicz.bsky.social Director of AI, Trust, and Society @ Partnership on AI, PhDing @ Oxford Internet Institute
www.claireleibowicz.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
The Information @theinformation.com The most authoritative publication covering tech that high-powered tech execs and founders read daily.
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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
Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com Executive Editor at Morning Brew
Priors: NBC News, WaPo, Adweek, Digiday
Bylines: The Awl, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Entrepreneur, HuffPost, Mashable, etc etc etc
Failed musician.
YMMV.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com Scientist, science communicator, public health & climate justice advocate
Biology PhD from Cambridge
WHO Fides member, Grist 50 Fixer, Creative Change alum
New Yorker/Aussie
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com General malcontent. Ghostwriter.
Author: THE DEBT, RIOT STREET (Hachette)
Agent: Kimberly Brower @ Park, Fine & Brower
tyleraking.com
She/her 🇨🇴
In Bed with the Right @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social A podcast about how conservatives see sex and gender, and how they keep fucking things up for the rest of us. Hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan. 
Garrison Hayes @garrisonhayes.bsky.social Storyteller | Video Correspondent @MotherJones.com; race, history + progress.
NAACP Image Award Nominee
Webby Award-winner, Best Creator.
NABJ Salute to Excellence Winner.
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social Constitutional litigator. Tennessee public interest/First Amendment/civil rights/innocence/election/appellate litigation. Nashville politics. Anti-SLAPP evangelist. Email daniel at horwitz.law. My views are my employer’s.
Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
The Markup @themarkup.org Challenging technology to serve the public good.
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst @PRAEyesRight. I write and train on antisemitism, white Christian nationalism, the MAGA Right, Israel/Palestine, Christian Zionism. Co-author Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. benlorber.com
Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social Vice-president of the World Liberty Congress. Founder & Chair of the Renew Democracy Initiative. Board of the Human Rights Foundation. Father, activist, author, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion.
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism
Signal: JSweetLI.61
Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation, Mother Jones
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social Democratic Strategist • LGBTQ+ Victory Fund Board • Senior Vice President @ Whitman Insight Strategies
matthewfmcdermott.com
Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social A crash-scene investigation at the crossroads of new media & public policy. Against media consolidation; for robust local journalism & actual digital democracy. Still attempting to master a cold take.
www.freepress.net - This Free Press is not for sale.
Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social Vox reporter - covering housing, homelessness, family policy
trying to prod productively
Cory Booker @corybooker.com U.S. Senator from New Jersey. 
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist
OMNISHAMBLES
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/omnishambles/id1787176282
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social Political writer. Covering Congress. Vincit Omnia Veritas.
Diversity is our strength. Unity is our power. 🩵
"Freedom is not just an absence of evil, but a presence of good."
-Timothy Snyder
Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social human @theintercept.com | co-host 🎙️ The Intercept Briefing podcast
Brooklyn, NY | https://theintercept.com/staff/akelalacy/
https://akelalacy.substack.com/
https://www.instagram.com/akela_lacy/
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social Law professor at Harvard (https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/nikolas-bowie/)
Author with Daphna Renan of Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People (W.W. Norton, Sep. 15, 2026) (https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324092803)
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Maryland
vanhollen.senate.gov
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor. 
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
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Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social Official Bluesky for the Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. Part of New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.