Free Speech and New Technology
This starter pack includes scholars, litigators, and tech policy experts who have participated in Knight Institute initiatives relating to free speech and new technology.
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@stephaniekrent.bsky.social
Staff Attorney @ Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. All views my own, especially those about the abiding importance of Diet Coke.
@sonjawest.bsky.social
UGA Law Professor (First Amendment, Media Law, U.S. Supreme Court); Free Press scholar; occasional person of interest but rarely official suspect. https://www.law.uga.edu/profile/sonja-r-west
@ssinnar.bsky.social
Law professor researching civil rights, political violence, racial justice, and national security
@georgewang.bsky.social
staff attorney @ Knight First Amendment Institute | he/him
@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.
@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.
@polgreen.bsky.social
New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff.
@davidakaye.bsky.social
californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair. go bears!
@jtlg.bsky.social
I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
@noahchauvin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Law at Widener University Commonwealth School of Law. Studies free speech, surveillance, and the production of legal scholarship.
@noahfeldman.bsky.social
Felix Frankfurter Professor, Chair of Society of Fellows @Harvard, Columnist @opinion.bsky.social Ethics of Power
@hbarw.bsky.social
@maryannefranks.bsky.social
Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
@ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social
Professor, Vanderbilt Law School; Director, Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator
@ksabeelrahman.bsky.social
Law prof @ Cornell Law School Formerly - OIRA Associate Administrator; President, Demos
@paulmatzko.bsky.social
Historian, author of The Radio Right (Oxford 2020), day job: tech & abundance at the Institute for Humane Studies.
@superwuster.bsky.social
Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Author of "The Curse of Bigness," "The Attention Merchants" Forthcoming book: THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025)
@tnridout.bsky.social
Thomas S. Foley Professor, Washington State University; co-director of Wesleyan Media Project; political advertising, news media, political communication
@efranklinfowler.bsky.social
Prof @ Wesleyan U; Co-Director of WesMediaProject (@wesmediaproject.bsky.social & mediaproject.wesleyan.edu); policomm, polisci, public opinion & health policy scholar; member of Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health & Social Policy (commhsp.org)
@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
@chandrn.bsky.social
Gobo. DashKite. Formerly @idpiumass.bsky.social, @knightcolumbia.org.
@FrankPasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech. [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@erincarrolledit.bsky.social
Video Editor/Photographer, Weather/Military/News/Sunset enthusiast. Sort of Retired ~ Bayfield Ontario 🇨🇦
@meredithlclark.bsky.social
I love horror and good gossip. Looking for people who know what I mean when I call something “a Saturday afternoon WGN movie”
@jnvictor.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Cardozo Law School, writing on IP and law & tech, perennial procrastibaker, 🏳️🌈
@jamesfletcherart.bsky.social
Illustrator and extra-dimensional abomination that occasionally slips into this reality to drink Monster Zero Ultra and take long, uninterrupted mid-day naps Portfolio>https://jcfletcher.artstation.com/ Currently Accepting Freelance work
@marle.bsky.social
Lawyer(ish) fighting for human rights & AI accountability @ECNL Activist by day, Dancer by night. Feminist & Dreamer always 🏳️🌈🇵🇸
@lucabellini.bsky.social
@axz.bsky.social
Professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social social.cs.washington.edu
@jasonburton.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School // Associate Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
@kjfeng.me
PhD student at the University of Washington in social computing + human-AI interaction @socialfutureslab.bsky.social. 🌐 kjfeng.me
@lukethorburn.com
Algorithms ∩ Conflict • PhD candidate • King's College London • lukethorburn.com
@dbambauer.bsky.social
Irving Cypen Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law. AI and alligators, with sides of patents, Internet censorship, and cybersecurity. Loves SCUBA diving, cats, Boston Red Sox, Legos, and cartoons.
@carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social
Constitutional law prof specializing in First Amendment, both speech & religion. Also repro Likes: art,science, feminism, LGBTQ rights, CRT, separation of church & state Things I've written: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=797431
@profalankchen.bsky.social
Thompson G. Marsh Law Alumni Prof, Denver Law; Research & write about free speech, qualified immunity, & ⚾; pro bono litigator; diehard Cleveland Guardians fan (he/him)
@jamalgreene.bsky.social
Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. How Rights Went Wrong (http://tinyurl.com/36fwz4wj). Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game.
@nadinefj.bsky.social
Policy Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University | Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Center for International Policy. Opinions mine.
@ramyakrishnan.bsky.social
Senior Staff Attorney, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
@ashleybelanger.bsky.social
Senior policy reporter for Ars Technica Signal: @ashleybelanger.77
@larrysiems.bsky.social
Writer, chief of staff at Knight First Amendment Institute. knightcolumbia.org.
@carriedecell.bsky.social
Senior Staff Attorney & Legislative Advisor, Knight First Amendment Institute (she/her)
@sayash.bsky.social
CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI. Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
@anchorchange.com
Work at intersection of tech and democracy. Fmr Facebook. Newsletter writer: anchorchange.substack.com
@heidikitrosser.bsky.social
Law professor focusing on constitutional law, especially free speech, the separation of powers, and government secrecy. Friend to all dogs and cats. Champion procrastinator.
@vivianschiller.bsky.social
@katygb.bsky.social
Research Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
@susser.bsky.social
ethics, politics, and policy in tech faculty, information science @ cornell www.danielsusser.info
@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.
@randersenjones.bsky.social
Law professor, First Amendment scholar, press freedom advocate. Yale Information Society Project.
@katiefallow.bsky.social
Dep. Litigation Dir., Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Cat enthusiast.
@sethlazar.org
Philosopher working on normative dimensions of computing and sociotechnical AI safety. Lab: https://mintresearch.org Self: https://sethlazar.org Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
@jeremycyoung.bsky.social
Senior Advisor @aacu.org. Advocate for liberal education. Personal account.
@dorfonlaw.bsky.social
Cornell constitutional law professor and dilettante in many other fields. Vegan. Cyclist. Knicks fan. I mostly provide links to my work, especially my Verdict columns & blog posts (as well as those of my co-bloggers). I also occasionally post snark.
@ellgood.bsky.social
Information law prof @ Rutgers. Philly, animal rights, algorithmic justice, book project on urban tech. Mom, wife, still daughter ..עברנו את פרעה 🇺🇸🌻💔
@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" :)
@victorpickard.bsky.social
Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
@chinmayiarun.bsky.social
Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
@rondeibert.bsky.social
Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
@attorneynora.bsky.social
law, tech, freedom, democracy | now: @freepress, past: free expression @PENamerica, litigation @ACLU. ATL | LA | NYC www.norabenavidez.com
@genevievelakier.bsky.social
Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
@akapczynski.bsky.social
Law prof at Yale, LPE Associate Justice, all things political economy, but not yr grandpas version.
@natematias.bsky.social
I work with communities on citizen science for safer, fairer, more understanding Internet. Founder: Citizens & Technology Lab. Assistant Prof in Communication at Cornell · Guatemalan-American. @[email protected] natematias.com citizensandtech.org
@alexabdo.bsky.social
Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (he/him)
@rebekahtromble.bsky.social
Director, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, GWU | Union of Concerned Scientists’ 2024 Defender of Science | Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/ https://expertvoicestogether.org/ https://independenttechresearch.org/
@suryamattu.com
Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com Previously: @princetoncitp.bsky.social @umwallacehouse.bsky.social 21-22 Fellow @themarkup.org @propublica.org
@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/
@safiyanoble.bsky.social
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com
@mayer.bsky.social
Princeton prof and tech + law person. Previously at the Justice Department, Senate, FCC, Stanford, and CalDOJ. Views are solely my own.
@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: [email protected]
@oonahathaway.bsky.social
Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; Executive Editor at Just Security; former Special Council at U.S. Department of Defense
@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.
@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) 🍋
@cristianfarias.com
Legal journalist and beachgoer. I write about courts, the law, and the politics shaping them for @vanityfair.com and elsewhere. Host of The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment. Hablo y pienso en español. Signal: cristianfarias.33
@marietjeschaake.bsky.social
Technology Policy at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🇪🇺 Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
@jameeljaffer.bsky.social
Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
@ethanz.bsky.social
UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@emilybell.bsky.social
Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
@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
@rickhasen.bsky.social
Professor, UCLA Law; Director, http://SafeguardingDemocracyProject.org; 2020 CNN, 2024 NBC/MSNBC Election Law Analyst; electionlawblog.org
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
@ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck "One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocket
@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
@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.
@jelaniya.bsky.social
your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
@juliaangwin.com
Investigative journalist. New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer. Founder, Proof News, The Markup. Priors: ProPublica, WSJ. Fellow at Harvard Shorenstein Center. Signal: Julia.368 Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
@qjurecic.bsky.social
I write about law, democracy, and the internet. Words in @lawfaremedia.org, The Atlantic, Washington Post Book World. It's KWIN-ta. Speaking only for myself on here. signal: qjurecic.32
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
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