Christy Somos @christysomos.bsky.social Award-winning 🇨🇦 Journalist, Analyst, Producer Creator+ Host @thestateofthings.bsky.social National security, extremism, global affairs, mis/dis-information | OSINT | DM for Signal |
christysomos.com
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
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.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Ollie Williams @ollienwt.bsky.social Editor, Cabin Radio. Northwest Territories news.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
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
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.
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
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
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
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
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
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
Travis View @travisview.bsky.social Father. Husband. Tap water goblin. QAnon Anonymous podcast host.
QAnon, conspiracy theories, disinfo, and other signs of the dystopia.
Email: travis @ Qanonanonymous.com
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
Kelly Weill @kellyweill.bsky.social Writer in books and blogs. Author of "Off The Edge" (book) and MomLeft.com (newsletter). Bunch of other words at NYMag, The Daily Beast, Atlantic, your yearbook.
kellybweill at gmail
Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
Agent: Landwehr & Cie
Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur
Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social I run The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in the US. Returning soon. Living with Long Covid. Profile photo by Victor G Jeffreys II.
The Informant: https://www.informant.news
Other places to find me: https://linktr.ee/nick_martin
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
Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social Reporting on tech and conflict for NBC News.
Previously WSJ, Harvard Shorenstein Center, BuzzFeed News.
Email: jane.lytvynenko@nbcuni.com
Signal: janelytv.74
Currently based in New York.
Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social Author: Strange People on the Hill https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-edison-hayden/strange-people-on-the-hill/9781645030607/ |
Signal: Mike.8852 |
patreon.com/c/PostingThroughIt |
https://michaeledisonhayden.substack.com |
🇺🇸🇪🇬
Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social she/her
Book on sheriffs & democracy
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/
Repped by @rhaliterary
DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com
“Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social Domestic Extremism Correspondent at NPR. 
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social Data Scientist/Musician/Participant in the General Confusion.
Oppose autocracy and research/counter disinformation. I serve the realm.
Caution: frequent cat photos.
https://conspirator0.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ItrZiqTLw
Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social Conspiracy theory journalist, expert witness, TPM contributor, Eaton Fire survivor. Wrote JEWISH SPACE LASERS, THE STORM IS UPON US, and ZERO CONTAINMENT (Fall 2027). rothschildmd@protonmail.com for tips, interviews, collaborations. Not A Rothschild.
Pia Lamberty @pialamberty.bsky.social Psychologin & Autorin | Psychologie für turbulente Zeiten: Psychologische Beratung • Trainings & Workshops • Vorträge |
➡️ Mehr unter pialamberty.de
📚 Mein neues Buch: „Der Untergang kann warten - Wie wir in Krisenzeiten Hoffnung schöpfen“
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Miro Dittrich @mirod.bsky.social Researching German far-right-extremism/terrorism, QAnon, and content moderation policies
Senior Researcher @cemas.io
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
co-founder @honeybadger.io
⎯
software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17
Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Media Matters, focusing on social media misinformation, disinformation, & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to akaplan@mediamatters.org.
CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social the only Australian on the internet.
I am the ABC's national AI reporter
you can find ways to e-meet me here: www.cameronwilson.com.au
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/
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Chris Dehghanpoor @ckd.sh OSINT reporter, Washington Post investigations • @chrisd9r on twitter • https://ckd.sh
Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social Hi. Hello. PHX local. Tired af. Antifascist researcher and occasional writer | Make zines dammit | Find some of my BS at LeftCoastRightWatch.org or linktr.ee/az_rww 🏜️🌵
Not John Pork. Not Penis Man. Haley Orion.
Olga Belogolova 🌻 @olgs7.bsky.social Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.
Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social independent scholar & political analyst. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
Tristan Mendès France @tmf.bsky.social Observateur de l’extrême. 📍Paris/🇫🇷/🇪🇺/🌍
Podcast : radiofrance.fr/franceinfo/podcasts/complorama
Team : conspiracywatch.info
Me : tristan.pro
Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship.
Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle
www.jakehanrahan.com
Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social I research and create educational videos about misinformation, propaganda, climate change, and sometimes (unfortunately) AI
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
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT.
WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres
https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/
Ali.winston@protonmail.com
Awinston.17 on Signal
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My book about Oath Keepers: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social Union organizer | full-time thorn in your side | your loud queer aunt 🏳️🌈 she/her | itinerant Midwesterner | annameier.substack.com
Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social Senior OSINT Investigator at @cen4infores.bsky.social. Opinions, hot takes, mistakes all my own. https://www.clippings.me/elisethomas
Karma2023 @karma2023.bsky.social Michael Protzman aka -48 cult researcher.
Conspiracy theories/QAnon researcher.
Amy Cooter, Ph.D. @amycooter.bsky.social Director Security, Intelligence & Digital Threats, Duco
Co-founder ICDE (counteringextremism.org).
Nostalgia, Nationalism & the US Militia Movement: http://tinyurl.com/yvme26ad
Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social The dapperest of ducks.
I mock and I know things.
QAnon analysis featured in Vice, Newsweek, Daily Mail, CBS News.
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 🇨🇦
Q Origins Project @qop.bsky.social 
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
InfoSecSherpa 🏔️ Lake Ontario 🚣♀️ @infosecsherpa.bsky.social #Librarian turned #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy practitioner. #Philly area hoagie mouth. InfoSecSherpa and Sherpa Intelligence: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! Portfolio: https://linktr.ee/infosecsherpa #GoBirds
Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
Pete Kurtz-Glovas @regularpete.bsky.social Extremism, Democracy, Peace | Former PERIL, Former GPAHE | Punk Stuff and Cats
Brent Lee @brentlee.bsky.social Host / Producer of Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast. Former conspiracist turned debunker. Now that I debunk conspiracy theories, I have become an actual conspiracy theory. True story.
Jeff Yates @jeffyates.bsky.social Journaliste à Radio-Canada, Décrypteurs. Je gosse les gens avec les fausses nouvelles depuis 2014. Parfois barbu. Peut-être un lézard.
Toutes les choses ici:
https://linktr.ee/jeff__yates
The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social Antifascist researchers in Australia.
Email: thewhiterosesociety@protonmail.com
We don't get DMs here -- email us instead.
Blog: https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/
Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social News, scholarship, publications, activism, & anti-disinformation for anti-fascists. 
Philip Mai @philipmai.com Executive Director of SocialMediaLab.ca | M.S., J.D. | Media interviews PhilipMai.com/Press/ | Researcher & Developer of social media analysis tools for research in the public interest: SocialMediaLab.ca/apps/
Poker And Politics @pokerpolitics.bsky.social QAnon is a cult that ruins lives. 
Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social Cultural intelligence, OSINT & digital policy ¦ human-digital flows; digital narratology; semantic threats; cognitohazards; extremism ¦ PhD on horror; creepypasta; digital fictions & how they shape our collective online experience.
Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
#BillsMafia
SoCal Research Club @socalresearchclub.bsky.social Southern California-based research collective that monitors, shares and publishes information on local active clubs, hate groups, extremist spaces and the connections between larger neo-nazi networks.
https://161archive.tngl.sh/socalresearchclub/
Brigitte Noël @brigitte.bsky.social Journaliste d’enquête / Investigative reporter @ Radio-Canada / CBC
(brige_noel on other site)
https://linktr.ee/brigitte.noel
Blyth Crawford @blythcrawford.bsky.social Views = mine. She/her
Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Southampton Researching all Things #OnlineExtremism #Terrorism #ClimateChange #Gaming #Ethics #VisualMethods #FarRight
Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social Host On Offense Pod. Cohost Find Out Podcast. CEO Task Force Butler + Veterans Fighting Fascism. Research: disinfo+extremism among vets+military (http://vva.org/trollreport). Yes, the Nazi hunter you’ve been looking for. linktr.ee/krisgoldsmith
Aoife Gallagher @aoifegall.bsky.social Fellow at @isdglobal.
Previously, Investigations @ Storyful.
**Taking a break**
Author of Web Of Lies: The Lure and Danger of Conspiracy Theories.
https://www.dubraybooks.ie/product/web-of-lies-9780717195121
🇮🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
Michele Prado @micheleprado.bsky.social Baiana. 🇧🇷
Writer, independent researcher, and founder of Stop Hate Brasil.
Focus: far-right radicalization, extremism and online terrorism.
Fellow @sci-belfast.bsky.social
Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Virginia Tech researching the translation of 4chan culture to American politics. MILR from Cornell. LGBTQ+ Ally. Former weeb. Militant defender of Democracy. The collapse of democratic rule is the sin of every citizen! 🀄️
Byline: MSNBC
Maddie Cannon @madcan0.bsky.social GNET Project Manager struggling to come to terms with using yet another social media platform | far-right, radicalisation, gender and youth | oh and also baked goods. 
Ciarán O'Connor @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social Research & investigations at @isdglobal.bsky.social looking at technology, extremism & disinformation. Via Storyful, University of Amsterdam & Dublin City University. Liúdramán-at-large. Contact: DM me or email media@isdglobal.org #osint
Jill Moria @jillem.bsky.social Perpetually bruised boulderer. She/They
Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social Extremism, conspiracy theories, housing. Recovering housing attorney.
Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social PhD candidate in Political Science at CU Boulder. Biker, climber, runner, skier, homebrewer, writer, coder.
email: alex [dot] newhouse [at] colorado [dot] edu
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
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social Social Psychologist: Categorization, Stereotypes, Conspiracy Mentality; EASP Executive Committee; https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=PJwzk1EAAAAJ
Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social Professional abyss gazer. Tech horrors in 57 varieties, head of strategy @foxglovelegal.bsky.social but my views are shared only by the demented and damned. I also have a PhD in Online, so that’s Dr 🐿️ to you
Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social Professor at University of Toronto. I study ideas, claims, and competitions over law and justice, often in turbulent, disrupted, violent & unsettled times. Direct labs on antisemitism and on justice systems under stress.
Jeremy Cohen @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ McMaster University.
Anthropologist of religion. Immortality, transhumanism, conspiracy theories and technology.
Vegan. Dad. ADHD haver. TalkDeath.com co-founder.
Cat-Tebaldi @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social Postdoc @ culture & computation lab | language & gender & far right |
Reem Ahmed @reemahmed.bsky.social Researcher IFSH | PhD Candidate Uni Hamburg | Researching (counter-)terrorism, extremism, platform regulation | https://ifsh.de/en/staff/ahmed 
Asbjørn Dyrendal @asbjorndyrendal.bsky.social Conspiracy beliefs, apocalypticism, extremism, new religious movements. Skeptical Norwegian. Professor, Religionswissenschaft.
Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social Journalist @DerSpiegel