First, a disclaimer: No one is paying me. I just find it really alarming to have a company that has such misleading messaging in our midst, because I really want the AT Protocol at large to succeed.
Also, sorry if I make any mistakes because while my browser is in GMT, I’m actually in GMT+9 and really need to go to bed.
@cristinacaffarra.bsky.social FYI you are listed as one of a list of "European public voices choosing W" on this web page: europetalking.wsocial.news. Is that correct? Thanks!
The post above led me to check the accounts on the page:
Individuals, institutions, and media listed as of October 17, 2026
Each have a photo or logo above the name, and “Active on W / AT-proto” (sic) with a little green pulsating dot before it, suggesting that they are all currently active on W Social or ATProto. The addition of “AT-proto” makes some of these true, but “European public voices choosing W” is still a lie.
Ursula von der Leyen
President, European CommissionChristine Lagarde
President, European Central BankAntónio Costa
President, European CouncilRoberta Metsola
President, European ParliamentKata Tüttő
President, European Committee of the RegionsAudrey Tang
Former Digital Minister of TaiwanMaría Fernanda Espinosa
Former President, United Nations General AssemblyThomas Regnier
EU spokesperson for Tech Sovereignty, Defence and SpaceAnne Applebaum
Pulitzer-Prize-winning JournalistDana Spinant
Director-General for Communication, European CommissionLouisa Specht-Riemenschneider
German Federal Data Protection CommissionerThomas Süssli
Former Swiss Chief of Armed ForcesPhilipp Rösler
Former German Vice Chancellor and Minister for Economics and TechnologyCristina Caffarra
Chair of EuroStack InitiativeElizabeth Denham
Former UK Information CommissionerSandrine Dixson-Declève
Honorary President of Club of RomeChristophe Leclercq
Co-Founder Europe MédiaLab / EuroActivPär Nuder
Former Swedish Minister for FinanceKristina Persson
Former Swedish Minister for Strategic Development and Nordic CooperationMarc Placzek
Former Chief Privacy Officer PayPal, Chief Privacy Officer Tools for Humanity
Institutions
European Commission
European Central Bank
EU Council
European Parliament
European Committee of the Regions
Media
Agence France-Presse
Beobachter
Blick
Bilanz
C'T Magazine
Der Spiegel
Heise Online
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Welt
Archive link to the current version, so that you can check for yourself:
What I found
All information as of when I checked on October 16, 2026. All dates are GMT. I searched for the person or organization’s name on Bluesky, with some additions I happened to know of for media organizations.
Summary
2 people who might not have any kind of an ATProto account at all (unless they’re pseudonymous)
1 person who doesn’t have a W Social account and isn’t exactly active on ATProto in general
9 people who do have W Social accounts but have never or almost never posted
1 organization that’s not on W Social (but technically they were for less than half a day) but are active on Bluesky
1 person and 1 organization that are on W Social but have never posted, and are active on Bluesky
7 people and 12 organizations that can be said to be active on W Social, 2 of which also have very active accounts on Bluesky
People who might not have an account at all?
I couldn’t find an account when I searched for their names. It’s possible that they have pseudonymous accounts that just didn’t come up in the search. It’s also possible that there are people who are scheduled to create accounts on W Social, but that’s not what the website conveys.
Philipp Rösler (Former German Vice Chancellor and Minister for Economics and Technology)
Elizabeth Denham (Former UK Information Commissioner)
People who don’t have accounts on W Social and aren’t active on ATProto in general
That I could find, anyway. It would be pretty funny if she has a pseudonymous alt account on W Social.
María Fernanda Espinosa (Former President, United Nations General Assembly)
is on Bluesky’s fibercap.us-west.host.bsky.network PDS (source). 4 posts and several reposts, the last one from 10 months ago
People who do have an account on W Social but have never or almost never posted
I realize “almost never” is subjective. Let’s say 5 posts or less, with leeway given if there’s activity within the past month. (These accounts could be said to be active in that they haven’t deactivated their accounts, but that is the weakest possible definition of “active.”)
Kata Tüttő (President, European Committee of the Regions)
was newly created on W Social on June 12, 2026 (source). 1 post, posted on June 17, and that’s it
Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider (German Federal Data Protection Commissioner)
was newly created on W Social on April 10, 2026 (source). 0 posts
Thomas Süssli (Former Swiss Chief of Armed Forces)
was newly created on W Social on April 9, 2026. 3 posts, the last one from April 19
Pär Nuder (Former Swedish Minister for Finance)
was newly created on W Social on April 17, 2026 (source). 58 followers/19 following/0 posts
There’s also , with a default avatar and 105 followers/490 following/0 posts, although again, I don’t know whether this is the same person or not
Kristina Persson (Former Swedish Minister for Strategic Development and Nordic Cooperation)
was newly created on W Social on April 20, 2026 (source). 2 posts (1 post and 1 reply), both from April 2026
Marc Placzek (Former Chief Privacy Officer PayPal, Chief Privacy Officer Tools for Humanity)
was newly created on W Social on April 17, 2026 (source). 5 posts (3 posts and 2 replies); the first three are from April and the last two are from September, so he just barely didn’t make the cut for “active” here
Organizations that don’t have accounts on W Social but are active elsewhere on ATProto
Der Spiegel
Interestingly, migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 17, 2026, but migrated back to Bluesky within the same day (source).3 90.8K posts
People who do have accounts on W Social but are far more active elsewhere on ATProto
Organizations that do have accounts on W Social but are far more active elsewhere on ATProto
Agence France-Presse – They have multiple accounts on Bluesky, but just to pick up the ones that are on W Social:
is on Bluesky’s enoki.us-east.host.bsky.network PDS (source). 16.3K posts
was newly created on W Social on June 16, 2026 (source). 0 posts
is on Bluesky’s lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network PDS (source). 22.9K posts
was newly created on W Social on June 16, 2026 (source). 0 posts
All of their other accounts are on Bluesky
People who can indeed be said to be active(-ish) on W Social
I’m being very generous in some cases.
Ursula von der Leyen (President, European Commission)
famously migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 11, 2026 (source). 1.8K posts
Christine Lagarde (President, European Central Bank) – Two accounts on W Social4
António Costa (President, European Council)
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 16, 2026 (source). 1.9K posts
There’s also with 3K+ followers but only three posts
Roberta Metsola (President, European Parliament)
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 16, 2026 (source). 808 posts
Audrey Tang (Former Digital Minister of Taiwan)5
Just to be thorough, she does also have an account that’s bridged from Threads, , with 58 posts. The distinction appears to be that is in English and the bridged account is in Chinese.
Thomas Regnier (EU spokesperson for Tech Sovereignty, Defence and Space)
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 17, 2026 (source). 35 posts. Mostly reposting @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, @ec.europa.eu, etc.
Anne Applebaum (Pulitzer-Prize-winning Journalist)
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 10, 2026 (source). 2.1K posts
Organizations that can indeed be said to be active(-ish) on W Social
European Commission
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 10, 2026 (source). 3.1K posts
European Central Bank
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 12, 2026 (source). 1.3K posts
EU Council
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 16, 2026 (source). 1K posts
European Parliament
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 16, 2026 (source). 959 posts
European Committee of the Regions
was newly created on W Social on June 12, 2026 (source). 2 posts, but the last one is from four days ago
Beobachter
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 12, 2026 (source). 2.1K posts
Bilanz
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 12, 2026 (source). 1.2K posts
C'T Magazine
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on May 13, 2026 (source). 6.1K posts
(from ’s Starter Pack) is, however, still on Bluesky’s enoki.us-east.host.bsky.network PDS (source). 848 posts
Heise Online
The main account, , migrated from Bluesky to W Social on May 13, 2026 (source). 24.4K posts
From ’s Starter Pack: (3.5K posts) and (2.6K posts) are still on Bluesky
(6.9K posts) and (351 posts), which are followed by , are also still on Bluesky
(2.5K posts), which is followed by which is in ’s Starter Pack, is also still on Bluesky
There are also a couple of bridged accounts with content from their RSS feeds, also not on W Social
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 5, 2026 (source). 2.6K posts
Welt
migrated from Bluesky to W Social on June 17, 2026 (source). 1.1K posts
I thought I should check because they also do this on their other promotional website:
The thought occurred to me (belatedly) that maybe there are other accounts on the promotional website that aren’t actually on W Social yet. Right now, wsocial.news shows me 4 users who are indeed on W Social and 3 who aren’t: @london.gov.uk, @beate.neos.eu, and @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu.
The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites.
Those technically aren’t lies because they don’t specifically say that the accounts are on W Social and W Social users can see them, but it’s incredibly misleading. I’ve seen multiple people understandably assuming that is on W Social, including this article on taz.de that has since been corrected. To this day, , , and are all on Bluesky.