Nora Benavidez
law, tech, freedom, democracy | now: @freepress, past: free expression @PENamerica, litigation @ACLU.
ATL | LA | NYC
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@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic — available for purchase now! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/zack-beauchamp/the-reactionary-spirit/9781541704411/?lens=
@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social
Journalist. Citations: NY Times, NBC News, Forbes. Founder, Impactivize.org (DEI Job of the Day) | No. 1 ESG Influencer on Twitter (Commetric 2020) | Retired exec recruiter | Author, The Tao of Pug series (Penguin, Skyhorse) | #DEI
@splc.org
Free legal help and info for student journalists. Champion of their First Amendment rights. 🏛️ Legal Hotline for student journalists: SPLC.org/legalhelp ✉️ Subscribe for the latest: SPLC.org/newsletter 🤝 Support student press freedom: SPLC.org/donate
@paulfscott.bsky.social
Constitutional law and national security law etc at the University of Glasgow
@josephwmead.bsky.social
Special Litigation Counsel @ Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP). Views are my own, and are subject to change.
@cubsfan33.bsky.social
Former CEO fighting for our constitution & democracy! Proud member of the Meidas Mighty, 50501 and Indivisible - Colorado
@kyledcheney.bsky.social
Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and Jan. 6
@repstansbury.bsky.social
Congresswoman representing New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District. Fighting for our future. Working to build a better world. Trail runner & chile connoisseur. ❤️🌶️
@davidjeans.bsky.social
Senior reporter @Forbes covering tech, national security, and defense. Co-author WONDER BOY: Tony Hsieh, Zappos and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley. http://shorturl.at/bjKMS djeans@forbes.com
@avindman.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Vet. Ex NSC/WH Staff. Doc of International Affairs. Senior Fellow, FPI SAIS, JHU. NYT Best-selling Author.
@jinsookkim.bsky.social
Feminist media scholar | Assistant professor, Media Studies, Emory University | Writing a book about digital media, online misogyny, and feminist activism in South Korea | she/her | Views my own www.jinsookkim.com
@gisellalomax.bsky.social
Information Integrity and Digital Protection. I work for the UN Refugee Agency - UNHCR - leading our response to misinformation, disinformation, online hate speech. Currently based in London
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@mathver.bsky.social
EU law and tech policy, mostly musings on content moderation, platform governance, privacy, AI. Now: Co-Founder & Director @awo.agency. Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Then: EU Parliament. UN. Mozilla. PhD in EU law.
@alexengler.bsky.social
Formerly Democracy & Tech at White House NSC & OSTP | Algorithms, Economic Access & Democracy | Predict not the car but the traffic jam
@lukethorburn.com
Algorithms ∩ Conflict • PhD candidate • King's College London • lukethorburn.com
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@alexandrageese.bsky.social
🇪🇺🌻 Member of EU Parliament @die-gruenen | she/her Digital, Democracy, Disinformation
@alexdibranco.bsky.social
@matthewdgreen.bsky.social
I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social
Security & Privacy. Data Protection. Research. Engineering. Analyst. Policy. W3C. Consultant. Author. King’s College London/War Studies. lukaszolejnik.com/books blog.lukaszolejnik.com techletters.substack.com
@sivakani.bsky.social
Managing Editor, Journal of Business Ethics | Member - Committee on Publication Ethics/International Society of Managing & Technical Editors/SSP Member
@ngamita.bsky.social
researcher studying influence ops & surveillance; open source, human rights, privacy & pro-democracy tech. lead: @thraets.org advisor: digitaldemocracyinitiative.net
@vivienm.bsky.social
Journalist. Nature journals and blog, pieces also in New Scientist, The Economist, Science, Lancet. Science, tech; arts and culture on occasion. Ex-MIT KSJ fellow; sr producer at arte. Articles, podcasts, videos. https://www.vivienmarx.com Signal: vam.60
@sarahmgilman.bsky.social
Writer & illustrator The Atlantic, High Country News, Sierra etc. Edits at bioGraphic Magazine. Terra Affirma column at https://www.yesmagazine.org/authors/sarah-gilman Art at http://etsy.me/3llAmpO and https://www.instagram.com/hiddendrawerdesigns/
@robin.berjon.com
Putting human agency back into technology. Brussels, 🇪🇺. • tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns • blog: https://berjon.com/ • fmr W3C, NYT, ScienceAI, Protocol Labs • he/him/Ishmael • Signal robin.77
@jbendery.bsky.social
I report on Congress, the White House + political campaigns for HuffPost. President emeritus of the Washington Press Club Foundation. Mama. 🏳️🌈 Tips: jen.bendery@huffpost.com / jbendery@proton.me Signal: jbendery.41
@tktk.bsky.social
NBC News National Reporter. Iowa raised, Los Angeles living. Bad at social media, good at petting animals. On Signal: tylerkingkadenbc.20 tyler.kingkade[at]nbcuni.com https://www.tylerkingkade.com/ https://www.nbcnews.com/pages/author/tyler-kingkade
@mtredden.bsky.social
Reporter covering national politics for ProPublica. Have a tip? molly.redden@propublica.org or find me on Signal at mollyredden.27
@tylermcbrien.com
Managing Editor at Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org Signal - tylermcbrien.97 Writing in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more: www.tylermcbrien.com
@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
@akispox.bsky.social
🇪🇺 European Commission Spokesperson for energy, climate, transport and taxation.
@danielahanley.bsky.social
Senior Legal Analyst at the Open Markets Institute. Newsletter: https://danielhanley.substack.com
@davidmcswane.bsky.social
Reporter @propublica.org Author, “Pandemic, Inc.” Colorado boy. 🐏 david.mcswane@propublica.org. Signal: 202-556-3836
@lhh.bsky.social
Author of Solidarity: the Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social
Political columnist, The Guardian Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
@coreyryung.bsky.social
Prof at KU Law. Writes about sexual violence, criminal law, courts, judges, and empirical legal studies. He/Him/His.
@boghuma.bsky.social
Physician Scientist MDPhD Infectious Diseases Academic Medicine Global Health Science Communicator Posts are my opinions, not my employer's and not medical advice I bet on myself and double down https://substack.com/@bktitanji
@zubhaque.bsky.social
Former Deputy Director and Head of Research at Women’s Budget Group. Former CEO The Equality Trust; Deputy Director of The Runnymede Trust. Member of Independent SAGE. Worked in government and think tanks. Views my own
@swin24.bsky.social
senior politics reporter @ Rolling Stone magazine // co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ // adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati (go Bearcats 🐻 🐱) // volunteer at St. Vincent de Paul - Cincinnati // Rolling Stones obsessive
@maitelsadany.bsky.social
Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social
@mjsdc.bsky.social
Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Dad to one toddler and several other animals.
@pmpearson.bsky.social
Feminist | Activist | Ally | Lawyer Leader at a national voting rights organization, ensuring every eligible citizen can vote. This is no time to sit on the sidelines- choose your path. #Resist #ProChoice #SlavaUkraini #BlueCrew Opinions my own. 🚫DMs.
@pamelasamuelson.bsky.social
Professor, Berkeley Law School, who writes about challenges that new information technologies pose for intellectual property & other laws. Past Chair & member of Electronic Frontier Foundation Board & of Authors Alliance Board. Gardening is my best hobby
@danielahorwitz.bsky.social
Constitutional litigator. Public interest/First Amendment/civil rights/innocence/election litigation. Nashville politics. Anti-SLAPP evangelist. Email daniel at horwitz.law. My views are my employer’s.