Trust and Safety starter pack
UPDATE: currently at capacity, but I will curate to focus on active posters. Keep suggesting folks to add. I hadn't seen anyone else make one, and figured it was past due. Send suggestions of folks to add, including yourself!
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@davidsullivan.bsky.social
@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" :)
@alexabdo.bsky.social
Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (he/him)
@benwhitelaw.bsky.social
Founder and editor of everythinginmoderation.co. Co-host & writer of ctrlaltspeech.com puns. Media consultant by day. #LUFC fan by birthright.
@jkosseff.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Law, US Naval Academy. Views my own and do not represent DOD, Navy, or USNA. jeffkosseff.com
@viacristiano.bsky.social
Associate editor, Tech Policy Press. Washington Post, Politico alum. Tips: cristiano@techpolicy.press, Signal: Cristiano.01 🇧🇷🇺🇸
@cendemtech.bsky.social
The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @CDTEU.bsky.social for our EU-based team. https://cdt.org
@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)
@rosejackson.bsky.social
Lead DFRLab Democracy + Tech Initiative at the Atlantic Council. Failed startup founder, snarky policymaker, former frontline civilian…always Hoosier.
@chinmayiarun.bsky.social
Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
@attorneynora.bsky.social
law, tech, freedom, democracy | now: @freepress, past: free expression @PENamerica, litigation @ACLU. ATL | LA | NYC www.norabenavidez.com
@johnperrino.com
🤓 Internet policy nerd 🌐 @InternetSociety.bsky.social "Senior Expert" 📚 Always learning ⚾ 🏛️ NY sports & DC life
@davidgreene.bsky.social
Civil Liberties Dir. @EFF, 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.
@samlai.bsky.social
Product Policy Manager at Instagram/Threads. Previously at @ieproject.bsky.social and @brookings.edu.
@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.
@grumplicio.us
Infosec person focused on harm reduction in technology; fmr tech, data science and T&S research at https://io.stanford.edu & https://tsjournal.org
@lolkat.bsky.social
Content Moderation Researcher at Meedan, Producer for hbomberguy Research: online moderation/abuse, misinfo, Trust & Safety, mental health, social media reporting/escalation channels. Prev: @Instagram @Intel @MSFTResearch
@charlottewillner.bsky.social
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders: following me for trust and safety content. Enjoy the egg memes.
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@isdglobal.org
Powering solutions to extremism, hate and disinformation since 2006.
@jmiers230.bsky.social
Assistant Law Prof @AkronLaw | Computer Scientist | 1A 💬 and tech scholar | meme docent 🧙🏼♀️ Prev: Google, Twitter (no, not X), Chamber of Progress jmiers@uakron.edu
@robyncaplan.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom. I make bad jokes sometimes.
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
Technology + democracy. Visit https://techpolicy.press Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
@cfiesler.bsky.social
information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her
@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.
@dfrlab.bsky.social
The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
@evelyndouek.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Stanford Law School. Aussie struggling with °F & online speech stuff.
@ericgoldman.bsky.social
Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: egoldman@gmail.com
@yaeleisenstat.bsky.social
Been called alarmist, a 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 Cybersecurity for Democracy. Personal website: www.yaeleisenstat.com
@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.
@dwillner.bsky.social
Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
@ubiquity75.xyz
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM. Professor, researcher, author, VP AoIR, synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. “This heaven gives me migraine.”
@daniellecitron.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
@daphnek.bsky.social
Director of Program on Platform Regulation, Stanford CPC. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues. I've done this stuff for a long time and am getting kind of cranky about it.
@davidakaye.bsky.social
californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair. go bears!
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@delbius.bsky.social
Still optimistic about people. Trust & Safety believer. Former head of T&S at Twitter 1.0 (2008-2021). More about me at delbius.com!
@senatorshoshana.bsky.social
@rstreet.bsky.social Institute Digital Director and Fellow on occupational licensing reform, Section 230, social media regulation, 1A. Marmots, mountaineering, sewing, sloths. Want to be here more, just so much to do! :( bit.ly/SenatorShoshana
@jillian.bsky.social
Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021). Views are mine alone. Work @EFF, teach at College of Europe Natolin, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about #freealaa
@riana.bsky.social
Tech policy researcher at Stanford. Former litigator. Dum spiro spero. Anger is an energy. she/her
@kissane.bsky.social
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Co-founded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense. Working/thinking at wrecka.ge, launching unbreaking.org
@aricohn.com
First Amendment & defamation lawyer. Now: Lead Counsel for Tech Policy at @thefireorg.bsky.social Former: Free Speech Counsel at @TechFreedom.org Illini/music junkie/oofnik. “A snarky gay lawyer Jessica Fletcher.” https://linktr.ee/aricohn
@klonick.bsky.social
Law professor & journalist researching internet law, online speech governance, AI. Dallying in consumer protection. For sporadic writings on these things see: https://klonick.substack.com/ For more info and full bio see: www.kateklonick.com
@rahaeli.bsky.social
Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
@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
@aaron.bsky.team
Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety. Email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz for more complex issues. Priority notifications active, so I don't see mentions. abuse = block
@safety.bsky.app
Sharing updates about trust and safety on Bluesky. This account’s mentions are not actively monitored. To report a post or account, use the in-app reporting feature. Community Guidelines: https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines
@davidsullivan.bsky.social
Tech policy, human rights, trust & safety. Raised in Brooklyn, based in Boulder. Views expressed here strictly personal. @david_msullivan elsewhere. Posts auto delete.