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Common Ground

These are Twitter accounts that rank highly in both lenses, meaning these are the people who are likely trusted by both groups and could be useful at neutrally establishing a shared reality. Once they clear a threshold in PageRank score, they are sorted by geometric mean of both Personalized PageRank scores (decreasing).

Summary

  1. Baseline (15)
  2. Reality-Based Community (6)
  3. Wall Street Journal (6)
  4. Think Tanks (5)
  5. The Atlantic (3)
  6. Financial Times (3)
  7. Brookings (3)
  8. Council on Foreign Relations (2)
  9. Washington Post (2)
  10. The New York Times (2)
  11. Wired (2)
  12. Ars Technica (2)
  13. Recode (2)
  14. Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams (1)
  15. Moderate Conservatism (1)
  16. Atlantic Council (1)
  17. The Los Angeles Times (1)
  18. Bloomberg Opinion (1)
  19. The Daily Beast (1)
  20. BuzzFeed (1)
  21. The Information (1)
  22. Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) (1)
  23. 350.org (1)
  24. My Climate Journey (1)
  25. Persuasion Community (1)
  26. Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (1)

Common Ground Accounts

Baseline

  1. Reuters Business (8.8923754)
  2. Lauren Young (8.6131792)
  3. Matthew Tostevin (8.4805750)
  4. Pedro Nicolaci da Costa (8.4054247)
  5. Madhavan Narayanan (8.3930256)
  6. Mehreen Zahra-Malik (8.3889002)
  7. Paul Smalera (8.3514194)
  8. Jeff Mason (8.3105743)
  9. Jared Keller (8.1386374)
  10. Kety Shapazian 🇧🇷 (8.0674824)
  11. Steph Haberman (7.9682904)
  12. Erin Geiger Smith (7.9554391)
  13. Dan Colarusso (7.9458887)
  14. Kenneth Li (7.8514799)
  15. Conz Preti (7.8073733)

Reality-Based Community

  1. Reuters Business (8.9103190)
  2. Lauren Young (8.6330513)
  3. Matthew Tostevin (8.4912017)
  4. Madhavan Narayanan (8.4105700)
  5. Mehreen Zahra-Malik (8.4104835)
  6. Paul Smalera (8.3747517)

Wall Street Journal

  1. Jack Shafer (7.8532880)
  2. Erin Geiger Smith (7.7592666)
  3. Conz Preti (7.7133517)
  4. Jeff Mason (7.7117104)
  5. Robert (7.6868145)
  6. Yeganeh Torbati (7.6680192)

Think Tanks

  1. Hayes Brown (7.9896927)
  2. Paul Smalera (7.9777276)
  3. Mehreen Zahra-Malik (7.8843536)
  4. Steve Beynon (7.8174717)
  5. Jack Shafer (7.7253879)

The Atlantic

  1. Hayes Brown (8.0070488)
  2. Jared Keller (7.9970368)
  3. Jack Shafer (7.8589256)

Financial Times

  1. Lauren Young (8.1783614)
  2. Jack Shafer (7.9398942)
  3. Conz Preti (7.8856407)

Brookings

  1. Jared Keller (7.9608748)
  2. Hayes Brown (7.7088940)
  3. Jack Shafer (7.6104516)

Council on Foreign Relations

  1. Hayes Brown (7.8255524)
  2. Jack Shafer (7.5953965)

Washington Post

  1. Mehreen Zahra-Malik (8.2145044)
  2. Yeganeh Torbati (7.6009861)

The New York Times

  1. Hayes Brown (8.2586747)
  2. Jack Shafer (7.8830108)

Wired

  1. Jack Shafer (7.9074389)
  2. Hayes Brown (7.8763030)

Ars Technica

  1. Brad Heath (8.0886570)
  2. Hayes Brown (7.8883111)

Recode

  1. Erin Geiger Smith (7.8180860)
  2. Jack Shafer (7.8138145)

Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams

  1. Jack Shafer (7.7693584)

Moderate Conservatism

  1. Jack Shafer (7.6918200)

Atlantic Council

  1. Paul Smalera (7.8121806)

The Los Angeles Times

  1. Jeff Mason (7.8022463)

Bloomberg Opinion

  1. Jack Shafer (7.9464550)

The Daily Beast

  1. Hayes Brown (7.7136897)

BuzzFeed

  1. Brad Heath (7.6310262)

The Information

  1. Kenneth Li (7.7844994)

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

  1. Brad Heath (8.0336911)

350.org

  1. Greenpeace East Asia (7.7587481)

My Climate Journey

  1. Ophir Gottlieb (7.6811091)

Persuasion Community

  1. Jack Shafer (7.7715012)

Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

  1. Jack Shafer (7.8900426)