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Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social Reporter covering Meta, social media and other topics (hopefully) for Reuters' investigative Team.
Alissa Cooper @alissacooper.bsky.social Executive Director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute at Georgetown University
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Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
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www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
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😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social Civil Rights & Free Speech Attorney. Disinformation & AI Expert. Nonfiction Author.
Now: Senior Counsel @freepress | 2026 Bellagio Residency Fellow @rockefeller (writing a book) | Board of Directors @benandjerrys
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Chris Bing @chrisbing.bsky.social Cyber, natsec and foreign affairs. Formers with ProPublica, Reuters and CyberScoop
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Kevin Bankston @bankston.bsky.social CONVERGER at kevinbankston.substack.com. Senior Advisor on AI Governance @cdt.org. Teaching AI law @georgetownlaw.bsky.social. Imagining futures @imaginationasu.bsky.social. My opinions, not theirs.
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
Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social Senior Tech Fellow @dgap.org | AI & Democracy |Influencers | Hybrid Threats | Foresight | Views my own
Delphine Ménard ≈ @notafish.bsky.social I do change, because change is the only constant. A local of many places, I come from experience. I'm in it for the people. | notafish@mastodon.cloud
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social Opinion research and advocacy/political strategy in declining democracies and emerging autocracies. Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to. Nice, FR
quirkglobalstrategies.com
linkedin.com/in/christinequirk
Quirkglobalstrategies: Substack
Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social Researcher on info ops, narratives, security-related topics, and hybrid warfare from Syria to Eurasia.
Editor, Security and Defense, Capital.
Non-Resident Fellow at DFRLab.
DRM Journal co-founder.
https://bio.link/ruslantrad
Valentin Châtelet @vchatelet.bsky.social Research Associate, Security @DFRLab
Uralistics afficionado 🔆 & GIS engineer 🌐
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)
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Ian Koski @iankoski.com Democratic comms strategist leading Quorum Creative, formerly of the U.S. Senate and the ONE Campaign. Called a "terrible campaign manager" by a candidate we beat by 51 pts. Former GWU prof. Villanova grad. Dad and woodworker.
Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social Senior Analyst @Graphika.
I have opinions of my own.
Daniel Suarez @danielsuape.bsky.social Investigador - DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social
Abde Amr @abde.bsky.social Researcher
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social Dedicated here to the unfinished work. - 16
Messy is the work, and the work can be joyful— Shepard Fairey.
Former, future.
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. NYC, from West Virginia.
Sopo Gelava @sopogelava.bsky.social Research Associate, DFRLab
Chris Riley @mchrisriley.com "A blend of tech insights, dad humor, and existential musings... Bonus points if you can explain data portability over bourbon."
http://mchrisriley.com (... of course)
Beth Goldberg @bgoldberg.bsky.social Fan of applied research for gnarly tech policy and product questions | Head of Research at Jigsaw (Google) | Lecturer at Yale Jackson School | Lurking for laughs and spicy discussion sections
William Fitzgerald @williamfitz.bsky.social Campaigns @theworkeragency and publishing @hardresetmedia
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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" :)
Tessa Knight @awildknight.bsky.social Researching disinformation for DFRLab | She/her | DMs usually open | tessaknight132@protonmail.com
Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social Reporter covering digital privacy and cybersecurity policy for The Record. Mom. Pub trivia queen. Crossword enthusiast. Literary fiction connoisseur. Idiosyncratic. Signal: Suzanne.236 Email: suzanne.smalley@therecord.media.
Layla Mashkoor @laylam.bsky.social Deputy Director of Research, @dfrlab.bsky.social.
Sarah Baline @sweetbaline.bsky.social Short king
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
Mike Rifer @thelifeofrifer.bsky.social Citizen | Dad | (former) Public Servant | Bi-Coastal Elite | Oregon Sports Enthusiast | Something about craft beer
Views expressed are my own!
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
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
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
Ben Decker @btdecker.bsky.social former startup guy
Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social Husband | Dad to Nelson, Cricket & Hank | Congressman |@HouseJudiciary @HomelandDems | social media policy:bit.ly/3gxdzVm | #EndGunViolence
Tracy Chou @triketora.com founder @blockpartyapp.com, acq by deleteme.
harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
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New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social @EFF's Senior Counsel, 1st Amdt prof @ USF, ex-SFSU. NOT any of the other David Greenes, like the ex-NPR host, the ex-UGA QB, or the 1 who directed Grease. Posts r mine only, so hands off.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social Washington Post National Security Reporter. Past features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Signal: zsd.19
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
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rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
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Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social Professor of Practice at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
Jean le Roux @jeanleroux.bsky.social Senior Investigator, Graphika.
Cape Town, South Africa.
Russell “RPG” Ziskey @rpg-volley.bsky.social We’re in the shit now, somebody’s gotta shovel it.
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
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KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Carly Miller @carlymil.bsky.social Data & Implementation, The Oversight Board |
Previously Research Analyst at the Stanford Internet Observatory 📡
David Agranovich @dagrano.bsky.social Fmr. NSC Director, Intelligence. Director, Threat Disruption @ Meta. Rescue Dog Pilot, Flight Instructor, Former Big Hair Practitioner 🏳️🌈
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.
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
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Riana @riana.bsky.social Tech policy researcher at Stanford. Former litigator. Anger is an energy. Dum spiro spero. she/her
Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social Full time: Momlife + working on tech, rights, societal impacts, democracy, foreign affairs. Major enthusiast of biking, bourboning, pie making, home renos, kitchen design, and travel.
Eric Baker @ebaker.bsky.social Typically chill, occasionally furious. Not the fictional Governor of Pennsylvania from the early 2000's portrayed by Ed O'Neil.
KC born and raised. Coffee black, please. Posts my own.
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social cnn senior pop culture writer/reporter. noted idiot
Ex-BuzzFeed News + ABC News (Australia)
Writing in Slate, Rolling Stone, NY Mag, NY Times, Bustle, The Daily Beast. Yahoo, MSNBC.
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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
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Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
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.
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.
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night
THE POPE'S HITMAN (Oct. 27, 2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca Information Ecologist exploring the information environment | Senior Fellow at @carnegieendowment.org and Director of @ieproject.bsky.social | PhD from KCL War Studies | Visiting Researcher @uniofbath.bsky.social | Author of The Information Animal 🇨🇦