Sparkable is a volunteer-run nonprofit blog reporting on its Tech + Democracy meetups, conference appearances and calls for volunteer software engineers to build an open, bridging-based social media platform. Readers get event announcements and updates on the project's progress rather than in-depth analysis.
Website: https://blog.sparkable.cc/
Independent reporting and analysis on AI companies, social platforms, and the policy and legal forces shaping them. Issues combine news reporting with a clear authorial perspective and disclosed conflicts of interest.
Renée DiResta writes about online disinformation, foreign influence operations, platform moderation and the politics around counter-disinformation research. Issues combine first-hand accounts, document-based rebuttals and her own experiments, such as building an AI notewriter for Community Notes.
Sandofsky is a personal essay newsletter by a former Twitter engineer examining how social networks decline, the fall of Lambda School, and skepticism about AI hype. Each issue mixes tech history, sharp anecdotes and critical reasoning about startups and Silicon Valley culture.
Mathew Ingram offers essays on technology and culture, covering social platforms such as Twitter, Bluesky and Threads, AI safety, and the question of machine consciousness. Readers get a personal, opinionated perspective drawing on his long career in media and technology.
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