Online Safety Act Network
Updates, commentary and analysis on the implementation of the UK's #OnlineSafetyAct www.onlinesafetyact.net
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Online safety experts and campaigners
Advocates, experts and campaigners with an interest in online safety and the implementation of the UK's Online Safety Act
@mctd.bsky.social
Radically rethinking power relationships between digital technologies, society, and the planet | 📍 University of Cambridge | Sign-up to our mailing list ➡️ http://tinyurl.com/minderoocambs | Latest: https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge
@techuk.bsky.social
The UK's tech trade association championing tech's role in preparing and empowering the UK for what comes next. https://www.techuk.org/
@jessicashurson.bsky.social
Law academic @ University of Sussex. Research interests: privacy, digital surveillance, cybercrime/criminal law, international law. 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧. (Personal account—views are my own.) issuesincybercrimelaw.substack.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-2136
@lyonsizzy.bsky.social
News reporter, the Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.com/profile/izzy-lyons
@revealingreality.bsky.social
Research-driven insights on online behaviours, tech innovation, youth media engagement and digital safety.
@5rightsfound.bsky.social
5Rights Foundation exists to make systemic changes to the digital world so that it caters for children and young people, by design and default.
@privacyx.bsky.social
Founder of PrivacyX Consulting. Former UK Deputy Information Commissioner. Now enjoying an independent portfolio advising on regulatory risk, new DP regulators on strategy, research into recommender systems. Blogging at privacyx.substack.com
@esmeharrington.bsky.social
digital rights, ai & tech policy @awoagency.bsky.social | sign-up for Algorithm Governance Roundup https://www.awo.agency/algorithm-governance-new | london 🏳️🌈
@tanyagoodin.bsky.social
Entrepreneur • Tech & AI Ethicist • Bestselling author • Founder ethicAI.bsky.social• Founder Time to Log Off • Host ‘It’s Complicated’🎙 📘5th book out now
@tomlacy.bsky.social
Policy and Impact Manager, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy. Views my own. https://www.mctd.ac.uk
@emmathwaites.bsky.social
I'm interested in tech and data. I'm - still - a journalist, public affairs and policy person, and single mother of two adult children. Armchair historian and lover of London although Yorkshire born-and-bred
@trisml.bsky.social
Open For All - civil society in the digital commons; Ashoka Special Relationship Fellow; NPC; Intersticia UK
@jessrmorley.bsky.social
100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently postdoctoral research associate Yale Digital Ethics Center.
@worklesshard.bsky.social
Run @whotargets.me and am a Partner @jointogether.online. Used to play drums in Fridge. Live in Cork, from London.
@richardpope.org
I wrote a book on public services: https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/ It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
@ginasue.bsky.social
Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@davidbabbs.bsky.social
Cricket, gardening, folk + electronic music, tech policy Used to run 38 Degrees. Now a consultant on campaigns/politics/digital/strategy
@oliverchantler.bsky.social
Head of Policy & Public Affairs, Mental Health Foundation, but views here my own.
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social
LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
@ofcom.bsky.social
Official account for Ofcom, the UK’s independent communications regulator. ofcom.org.uk
@seanadavis.bsky.social
Information Integrity | Countering Misinformation | Ex @Reuters.com, @Euronews.com Found any potential misinfo? Tag me!
@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. #RageAgainstTheBullshitMachine
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@toridoki.bsky.social
class & literature | deputy editor @logicallyfacts.com | views my own | neurodivergent
@newslit.org
We advance the development and teaching of news literacy in K-12 education. #NewsLiteracy https://newslit.org/
@3r1ng.bsky.social
Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press). Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
@bostonjoan.bsky.social
I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University www.criticalinternet.org
@abbierichards.bsky.social
Researching misinformation, extremism, conspiracy theories, and the general decay of collective reality we’re currently enduring. Also I produce videos explaining these issues but BlueSky only lets me post videos up to 60 seconds. So TBD on those
@billmccarthy.bsky.social
Digital investigation journalist covering online mis- and disinformation, conspiracy theories and extremism for AFP • Formerly with PolitiFact and the Raleigh News & Observer • Duke alum https://factcheck.afp.com/Bill-MCCARTHY
@socialmedialab.ca
Academic Research Lab in Toronto: SocialMediaLab.ca |Skeets by @philipmai.com re: the politics of technology, social media, democracy, mis/disinfo, conspiracies & propaganda | PoliDashboard.org, DeepfakesTracker.org, ConflictMisinfo.org & Communalytic.org.
@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
@alexcapron.bsky.social
Journaliste fact-checkeur à @TF1 pour les Vérificateurs, OSINT et enquête traces numériques
@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
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social
Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game. www.sandervanderlinden.com
@tessowen.bsky.social
Words in New Yorker, NY Mag, WIRED, Guardian & more. VICE News alum. Reporting on extremism, disinfo, subcultures etc. more fun than I sound. send tips/ say hello at tessalexandraowen@gmail.com or DM for signal
@logicallyfacts.com
An IFCN-certified, global and multilingual initiative to uncover misleading and deceptive online discourse. http://logicallyfacts.com/en/
@peteradams.bsky.social
Head of research & design at the News Literacy Project. newslit.org RumorGuard.org Checkology.org
@craigsilverman.bsky.social
Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer. I write the free Digital Investigations newsletter and edited the Verification Handbook series. Previously: ProPublica, BuzzFeed News. https://digitalinvestigations.substack.com/ https://craigsilverman.ca
@mxbernhard.bsky.social
journalist on correctiv’s fact-checking teamㅣDowJones & WSJ alumㅣprevious work Lighthouse Reports, DW, Guardian, Wired and othersㅣOSINT, disinformation
@timetodiscover.bsky.social
Journalistin bei correctiv.org/faktencheck | Porträt von Ivo Mayr Hier privat mit den Themen: Faktencheck, Osint, Medienkompetenz, Telegram, Kambodscha und Frankreich
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.