I am currently the Research Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Public Policy, where I direct the Technology and Social Change Research Project. Our team researches media manipulation, disinformation, and adversarial media movements. 

I was previously the Research Lead for Data & Society’s Media Manipulation Initiative, which mapped how interest groups, governments, political operatives, corporations, and others use the internet and media to disrupt social institutions.

I completed my PhD in Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, where I studied white supremacists’ use of DNA ancestry tests, social movements, and technology.

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