Thanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social Director of @CenturyIntl, senior fellow @TCFdotorg.
Books: Iraq war (forthcoming), Once Upon a Revolution, Shia Power, Hezbollah, Hybrid Actors, Citizenship & Discontents.
David Sterman @davidsterman.bsky.social Deputy Director, New America Future Security program
Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social Journalist, fellow at Century International @tcfdotorg.bsky.social, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com
Previously: Founding executive editor, Democracy in Exile @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social; managing editor @wpr.bsky.social; staff editor @foreignaffairs.com
Chatham House Africa @africaprog.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org’s Africa Programme is a world-leading centre for independent policy research on African politics.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/africa-programme
Podcast🎙️: soundcloud.com/chathamhouse/sets/africa-aware
The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social Confronting the true drivers of America's affordability crisis. Advancing bold solutions to lower costs. Policy for people—not powerful interests. tcf.org
Investigative Simulations Lab @investigativesimulations.org The Investigative Simulations Lab designs and delivers realistic simulation games that show journalists and researchers how to follow the money and uncover wrongdoing.
Follow us here and at https://investigativesimulations.org/
perspicacity @perspicacity.media Investigative journalism and insight on disinformation, corruption & human rights. Media literacy for the modern information environment. https://www.perspicacity.media/
amaBhungane @amabhungane.bsky.social Investigative journalism in the public interest. Digging dung, fertilising democracy. http://amabhungane.org
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/
Peter Cunliffe-Jones @pcunliffejones.bsky.social Information effects at Facts Matter Research | visiting researcher at Uni Westminster | founder africacheck.org | new book: “Fake news - what’s the harm?” available in print or as free e-book https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/3197xq21t?locale=en
Ayala Panievsky @panievsky.bsky.social Presidential Fellow at City University of London | populism in power, media under attack, future of news | ex Haaretz, Gates-Cambridge, Molad | Out now: https://footnotepress.com/books/the-new-censorship/
Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social Senior digital investigation journalist covering online mis- and disinformation for AFP • Formerly with PolitiFact and the Raleigh News & Observer • Duke alum • “The internet folks” - Stephen Colbert
https://factcheck.afp.com/Bill-MCCARTHY
Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other
Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social Social scientist @yalesph.bsky.social studying why we get fooled online, and what to do about it. Author of Misguided. https://amzn.to/48zTs59
https://matthewfacciani.substack.com
www.matthewfacciani.com
https://matthewfacciani.github.io/tools/
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
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
Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
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
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Exploring the future of journalism
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC
Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
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.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.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)
Steven Donziger @sdonziger.bsky.social Advocate, writer & public speaker on human rights and corporate accountability. Lawyer on team that won historic $9.5b judgment against Chevron.
Watch the first episode of my podcast Donziger on Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_nXKlrdt8Y&t=71s
Duncan Tucker @duncantucker.bsky.social Journalism and human rights. Amnesty International's Leadership Media and Communications Manager.🕯 Views expressed here are my own.
Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social Work: @hrw.org on human rights in Europe
Non-work: Migrant. Parent. Pedant. Anorak. #dadjokes. He/him.
Barcelona-based.
Work output here: https://www.hrw.org/about/people/kartik-raj
Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social Associate Crisis, Conflict, and Arms Director at Human Rights Watch
Elaine Pearson @elainepearson.bsky.social Asia Director, Human Rights Watch
Author of Chasing Wrongs and Rights
Bill Frelick @billfrelick.bsky.social Director, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
Shauna Labman @shaunalabman.bsky.social Executive Director @UWGlobalCollege Associate Professor #HumanRights @uwinnipeg | Lawyer | Scholar | Advocate | #Refugees #Resettlement #RefugeeSponsorship #Migration
Gissou Nia @gissounia.bsky.social Lawyer specialized in international criminal and human rights law. Founder & director of @slpjustice.bsky.social.
Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social Author and writer: Humanitarian, Human Rights, Development, War and Peace. Ex UN, WHO, Red Cross Red Crescent, UK Government. Professor Emeritus Univ of Manchester
Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social Work in human rights, international criminal law, and accountability for mass atrocities - in Canada and around the world.
Professor and advocate.
Based in Vancouver.
www.markkersten.com
Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability @bu-igs.bsky.social Advancing research for a sustainable and equitable future https://www.bu.edu/igs/
Annie Percik @apercik.bsky.social Author and freelance editor - fiction and nonfiction
Podcaster and blogger
Knitter and geocacher
Website - https://alobear.co.uk
Newsletter - http://rb.gy/w5f59q
IntelWalrus @intelwalrus.bsky.social A pinniped doing open source research. Will geolocate things for fish.
Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social PAI Research & OSINT enthusiast
USAF Intel (retired)
https://linktr.ee/snyde21
OSINT Essentials @osintessentials.bsky.social Education and critical evaluation of information are crucial. Don't be a passive consumer
Also @eoghan.bsky.social
ObSINT @obsint.eu ObSINT is a hub of resources for the OSINT community. We publish non-binding guidelines for stakeholders conducting public-facing Open-Source Intelligence work
https://obsint.eu 
OSINT Techniques @osinttechniques.bsky.social https://www.forensicosint.com/
Christo Buschek @christobuschek.net Data, computations and investigations | Pulitzer Prize 2021 | Der SPIEGEL | Mozilla Senior Fellow 2025 | https://christobuschek.net | christo.buschek@proton.me
Rawan Shaif @rawanssa18.bsky.social Ex @Amnesty @UN @TheSentry_Org @Bellingcat | Sudan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen | Open-source and IHL/Human Rights | views my own
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Dietmar Pichler @dietmarpichler.bsky.social Head Editor/Analyst INVED, lecturer
International & European Affairs – countering interference campaigns by Russia and other authoritarian states. #DemocraticResilience #InformationSecurity
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.
Centre for Information Resilience @cen4infores.bsky.social Non-profit that exposes human rights & war crimes, counters disinformation, & combats online harms targeting women & minorities.
www.info-res.org
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Tom Keatinge @keatingetom.bsky.social Director, Centre for Finance & Security at RUSI
RUSI @rusi.bsky.social Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Founded in 1831, RUSI is the oldest defence and security think tank in the world.
Website 💻: https://rusi.org/
WhatsApp 📱: https://bit.ly/4h0M5FQ
Natural Resource Governance Institute @nrginstitute.bsky.social We support informed, inclusive decision-making about natural resources and the energy transition. Learn more: resourcegovernance.org
The FACT Coalition @factcoalition.bsky.social Uniting more than 100 organizations in the U.S. to promote policies to combat corrupt financial practices and create a fair and transparent tax system.
https://thefactcoalition.org/
International Anti-Corruption Conference @iaccseries.bsky.social We are the world's biggest anti-corruption forum. The #IACC2026 take place in the Dominican Republic. By @anticorruption.bsky.social Imprint: http://anticorru.pt/2EJ
💻Website: iaccseries.org
🔗https://linktr.ee/iaccseries
Prof Robert Barrington @csc-barrington.bsky.social Professor at Centre for the Study of Corruption; ex UK head of TI; UK govt adviser. BVI News: ‘Who is this punk Barrington?’ ‘Thug in a suit.’ ‘Needs to stfu.’ 
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
Alexandra Gillies @agillies.bsky.social Impact team @OCCRP.bsky.social
Anti-corruption; Pro-democracy, transparency & women's basketball.
Author of Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World. 
Liz David-Barrett @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex
PPLAAF @pplaaf.bsky.social The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa seeks to defend whistleblowers, as well as strategically litigate and advocate on their behalf where their disclosures speak to the public interest of African citizens.
https://www.pplaaf.org/
John Dell'Osso @johndellosso.bsky.social Investigative journalist focused on corruption, money laundering and other forms of skulduggery. Game designer and founder, @investigativesimulations.org. Semi-random thoughts on transportation, bikes and music.
Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social Do investigations for the FT, into dubious accounting and dodgy characters mainly. Wrote a book called Money Men about a spectacular fraud
Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social Challenging corruption, strengthening integrity, and fighting for a fair society based on the rule of law.
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
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social The UK’s largest not-for-profit newsroom. Exposing injustice and sparking change 💪
Open Ownership @openownership.bsky.social Driving the global shift towards transparency and accountability in corporate ownership and control.
#BeneficialOwnership #transparency
Frederik Obermaier @frederikobermaier.com journalist | pulitzer prize #PanamaPapers | member of @icij.org | board member @arijnetwork.bsky.social | co-founder @acdatacollective.bsky.social & @papertrailmedia.de (www.papertrailmedia.de) | www.frederikobermaier.com
Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social We are a global movement that wants to end the injustice of corruption worldwide 💙 Imprint: http://anticorru.pt/im
Web: https://www.transparency.org/
Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC) @sussexscsc.bsky.social The UK's first academic centre dedicated to interdisciplinary research and teaching on corruption (Univesity of Sussex)
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-study-of-corruption/
Anti-Corruption Data Collective @acdatacollective.bsky.social A non-profit group of investigative journalists, data scientists, academics and policy experts working together to expose and undermine corruption.
www.acdatacollective.org 
UK Anti-Corruption Coalition @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org We bring together the UK's leading anti-corruption organisations, advocate to policymakers, hold the powerful to account, and drive real-world change.
ukanticorruptioncoalition.org
The Insider @theins.press The Insider is a Russia-focused, independent media outlet. We're fully committed to investigative journalism and to debunking fake news.
theins.press/en
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa, @HRW.org
Senior Fellow, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
Counsel to Human Rights & Privatization Project, NYU Law
Media Literacy Now @medialiteracynow.bsky.social We inform & drive policy change at local, state, & national levels in the U.S. to ensure all K-12 students are taught #MediaLiteracy so that they become healthy, confident, and competent media consumers and creators. https://medialiteracynow.org/
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
JK @jaskiratsb.bsky.social Global Head of Editorial Operations at @logicallyfacts.bsky.social
(counter-misinformation, fact-checking, media literacy).
Also.
News Junkie 🗞 | Caffeine Addict ☕️ | Motorcycle Something 🏍 | Pop Culture Trivia Geek 🤓 | Shutterbug 📷 | LLAP 🖖
Lead Stories @leadstories.com Fact checking site looking at the most trending hoaxes on the Internet.
https://leadstories.com
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
News Literacy Project @newslit.org We advance the development and teaching of news literacy in K-12 education. #NewsLiteracy https://newslit.org/
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
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.
Seana Davis @seanadavis.bsky.social Information integrity | Exploring AI Risk Mitigation
Snopes @snopes.com Official Snopes profile
Africa Check @africacheck.org We hold public figures accountable for what they say, and debunk dangerous false statements. Get the facts: http://africacheck.info/m/fact-check-HQ
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social We publish books on current affairs, history, conflict and religion in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. And much else besides.
deck.blue @deck.blue 3rd-party TweetDeck for the Atmosphere! Featuring columns, multi-account, scheduling and inline translations!
Developed by @gildaswise.com without AI
App: https://deck.blue
Contact: hello@deck.blue
Subscribe: https://patreon.com/deckblue
vera.ai @vera-ai.bsky.social VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence. Research project co-funded by HorizonEU. Makers of InVID-WeVerify-vera.ai verification plugin, plus much more! Focus: countering disinformation. Here: project owners’ views.
https://www.veraai.eu/home
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk
@chrislinnell.bsky.social @chrislinnell.bsky.social 
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
C4ADS @c4ads.org We're a nonprofit organization with a mission to defeat the illicit networks that threaten global peace and security. RT ≠ endorsement. Learn more at https://c4ads.org/.
Freedom Now @freedomnoworg.bsky.social Join us to protect individuals and communities from government repression www.freedom-now.org
Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
Amnesty International @amnesty.org We defend human rights around the world.
No government is beyond scrutiny, no situation is beyond hope.
Let's get to work!
For media enquiries, please contact us at press@amnesty.org
Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/