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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. Claremont Institute (9)
  2. Think Tanks (9)
  3. Baseline (8)
  4. Populist Libertarians (6)
  5. Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (6)
  6. Heritage Foundation (5)
  7. Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams (4)
  8. Hoover Institution (4)
  9. Cato Institute (4)
  10. Moderate Conservatism (3)
  11. The New York Times (3)
  12. The Dispatch (2)
  13. Bloomberg Opinion (2)
  14. OANN (2)
  15. Ecomodernists (2)
  16. American Enterprise Institute (2)
  17. National Bureau of Economic Research (2)
  18. Rationality (2)
  19. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) (2)
  20. Reality-Based Community (1)
  21. Works in Progress (1)
  22. Founders Fund (1)
  23. The Atlantic (1)
  24. Washington Post (1)
  25. The New York Post (1)
  26. The Intercept (1)
  27. A16Z (1)
  28. Khosla Ventures (1)
  29. The Daily Beast (1)
  30. Niskanen Center (1)
  31. Foreign Policy (1)
  32. Center for American Progress (1)

Common Ground Accounts

Claremont Institute

  1. Kurt Schlichter (8.3302957)
  2. Jack Posobiec (8.3077116)
  3. Rare and Mild Cernovich (8.0163981)
  4. The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (7.8898759)
  5. Chip Roy (7.8796452)
  6. Ned Ryun (7.8226214)
  7. Siraj Hashmi (7.7569794)
  8. Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (7.6894514)
  9. Robby Starbuck (7.6617062)

Think Tanks

  1. The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (8.2753370)
  2. Chip Roy (8.0473769)
  3. Jack Posobiec (8.0378872)
  4. Richard Grenell (7.9668024)
  5. Michelle Malkin (7.9127091)
  6. Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (7.9063400)
  7. Gordon G. Chang (7.9008636)
  8. Kurt Schlichter (7.8321617)
  9. James Woods (7.7785286)

Baseline

  1. Jack Posobiec (8.2574813)
  2. The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (8.0251853)
  3. Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (7.9103820)
  4. Kurt Schlichter (7.8530864)
  5. Richard Grenell (7.8412713)
  6. Chip Roy (7.8235792)
  7. Rare and Mild Cernovich (7.7952589)
  8. James Woods (7.7739355)

Populist Libertarians

  1. Jack Posobiec (8.1046433)
  2. Rare and Mild Cernovich (8.0314379)
  3. Richard Grenell (7.8884781)
  4. Kurt Schlichter (7.8421055)
  5. Brandon Straka (7.6867367)
  6. Siraj Hashmi (7.6096607)

Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

  1. Siraj Hashmi (8.0309268)
  2. Kurt Schlichter (7.9044205)
  3. Jack Posobiec (7.8827042)
  4. Richard Grenell (7.7602461)
  5. Chip Roy (7.7421542)
  6. Rare and Mild Cernovich (7.7295803)

Heritage Foundation

  1. Jack Posobiec (8.1119695)
  2. James Woods (7.8953320)
  3. Richard Grenell (7.8683977)
  4. Siraj Hashmi (7.8550033)
  5. Gordon G. Chang (7.5750109)

Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.8276946)
  2. Jack Posobiec (7.7514546)
  3. Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (7.6999612)
  4. Rare and Mild Cernovich (7.5887682)

Hoover Institution

  1. Kurt Schlichter (7.9890710)
  2. Siraj Hashmi (7.7527886)
  3. Richard Grenell (7.7326902)
  4. Gordon G. Chang (7.6840556)

Cato Institute

  1. The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (8.1309409)
  2. Michelle Malkin (7.7691244)
  3. Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (7.7589433)
  4. Siraj Hashmi (7.6719908)

Moderate Conservatism

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.7485447)
  2. Rare and Mild Cernovich (7.5736220)
  3. Richard Grenell (7.5683077)

The New York Times

  1. Kurt Schlichter (7.9906490)
  2. Siraj Hashmi (7.7185997)
  3. Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (7.7033462)

The Dispatch

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.9380125)
  2. Chip Roy (7.8714094)

Bloomberg Opinion

  1. Chip Roy (7.7278692)
  2. Siraj Hashmi (7.6889374)

OANN

  1. Jack Posobiec (7.8708084)
  2. Rare and Mild Cernovich (7.7094573)

Ecomodernists

  1. Jack Posobiec (7.7911914)
  2. Rare and Mild Cernovich (7.7237181)

American Enterprise Institute

  1. Chip Roy (7.8794999)
  2. Siraj Hashmi (7.8488240)

National Bureau of Economic Research

  1. Chip Roy (7.8794999)
  2. Siraj Hashmi (7.8488240)

Rationality

  1. Jack Posobiec (7.7909056)
  2. Rare and Mild Cernovich (7.6398460)

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

  1. Jack Posobiec (7.7911615)
  2. Siraj Hashmi (7.6088755)

Reality-Based Community

  1. Jack Posobiec (8.2872102)

Works in Progress

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.5826872)

Founders Fund

  1. Rare and Mild Cernovich (7.6108077)

The Atlantic

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.8262532)

Washington Post

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.6982114)

The New York Post

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.6692662)

The Intercept

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.8635057)

A16Z

  1. Rare and Mild Cernovich (7.6564628)

Khosla Ventures

  1. Rare and Mild Cernovich (7.6345642)

The Daily Beast

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.7928729)

Niskanen Center

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.7989878)

Foreign Policy

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.7989878)

Center for American Progress

  1. Siraj Hashmi (7.7215016)