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Followers
30.9K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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📊 Post engagement
164
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
May 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law e · 627 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.2 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
49×
Follows 634 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Unusual request: if you were an Android user at the Substack party at the Renwick tonight and would be willing to share your device’s network logs (anonymously is fine!), please reach out on Signal: byrontau.01. I can walk you through how.
After Trump's FCC commissioner fixated on a report he didn't like, a Bay Area radio station demoted a well-liked anchor and dialed back on political programming, staff said. Reporters also said they were dissuaded from pursuing political o…
AP INVESTIGATION: For decades, the US government allowed and even helped US firms sell tech used for surveillance in China — enacting a loophole-ridden export control regime that failed to accomplish its big goals. By @garanceburke.bsky.so…
A blockbuster AP investigation from @dakekang.bsky.social and @yaelwrites.com finds that US tech companies designed and built China’s repressive surveillance state trapping tens of thousands of ordinary Chinese citizens in a digital cage. …
Tremendous reporting from Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha in the @wsj.com on how Pentagon pranks, coverups and in some cases deliberate disinformation fed to American citizens fueled interest in UFOs.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Also if you're interested, I wrote a book about this:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706321...
New intelligence community-run portal will be a "one stop shop" for commercially available information. This includes information on your car, your phone, your Bluetooth headphones, your purchases -- sold by corporations and bought by gove…
Trump ordered an investigation into the Democrat's online fundraising machine ActBlue, yet his own campaign finance records show similar issues with unverified donors and possible illegal foreign money. apnews.com/article/trum...
For the past few weeks, a wire has snaked out of the open window of the GSA administrator's office and onto the roof, where it connects to a Starlink terminal
A look at the very Muskian takeover of the chokepoint of federal tech, real est…
AP’s exclusion from the White House over its refusal to use the term Gulf of America "has been contrary to the First Amendment" and U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden (Trump appointee) "enjoins the Government from continuing down th…
21 DOGE staffers resign rather than help use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services," according to a resignation letter obtained by the AP.
Musk has largely tried to keep technical talent at DOGE, mostly laying …
🦋 Handle & authenticity
Bluesky handle
@byrontau.bsky.social
A default .bsky.social handle — genuine, but not domain-verified. Confirm identity before a high-value deal.
On Bluesky since
May 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 164 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated72/100
Good
Credibility score
94%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
investigative reporter in washington
formers: ap, wsj, politico, notus. author of 'means of control,' a book on big data and big government. buy: https://bit.ly/buyMoC
signal: byrontau.01
twitter/linkedin/mastodon: byrontau
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