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On set with Craig Silverman and Molly Thomas for TVO'S Big If True series.

Select Research Features

"Mastering the Paradox: How Governments Fight and Feed Disinformation at Once," Perry World House.

“New ‘Media Manipulation Casebook’ from Harvard teaches how to detect misinformation campaigns," The Washington Post.

"New Report Shows How a Pro-Iran Group Spread Fake News Online," The New York Times.

"The Telltale Signs of a Fake Atlantic Article," The Atlantic.

"How a suspected Iran-based campaign tried to get Canadian media to spread fake news," CBC.

"An Iranian Disinformation Operation Impersonated Dozens Of Media Outlets To Spread Fake Articles," Buzzfeed News.

"What We’re Reading: Media Manipulation, Newsroom Newsletters, Successful Pitches, and a UN Resolution on Journalist Safety," Global Investigative Journalism Network.

Boston Public Radio, with Susan Landau, Erik Lin-Greenberg, and Joan Donovan.

Select Media Interviews

“China Is Now Sending Twitter Users to Prison for Posts Most Chinese Can’t See," The Wall Street Journal.

"How Anti-Cybercrime Laws Are Being Weaponized to Repress Journalism," Columbia Journalism Review.

"Election Misinformation," Big, If True, TVO.

“The Life and Death of Malaysia's Anti-Fake News Act,” The Lawfare Podcast.

"New Year, Fresh Threats," GBH Boston Public Radio.

"Fighting a Two-Front War: Censorship and Disinformation in Southeast Asia," GBH Boston Public Radio.

"Reddit enlists users to combat coronavirus misinformation," The Hill.

"Fears of election meddling on social media were overblown, say researchers." CBC

Part of a larger image by Frederick Burr Oper, 1894, depicting (most likely) Joseph Pulitzer, sitting in a chair in his office next to an open safe where "Profits" are spilling out onto the floor as reporters run to turn their stories in (source).

Opinion Editorials and Public Commentary

“A Match Made in the Heavens: The Surveillance State and the “New Space” Economy.” Tech Policy Press, June 18, 2025 (with Aidan Kerr, Marlene Terstiege, and Marc Calabretta).

“Misinformed about misinformation: On the polarizing discourse on misinformation and its consequences for the field.” Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review 5, no. 5, (2024) (with Irene Pasquetto and Samantha Bradshaw).

“Balancing Reality and Fear: Why An Alarmist Take on Chinese Influence Operations Is Counterproductive.” Just Security, July 21, 2021 (with Lotus Ruan).

“The Internet Is a Crime Scene.” Foreign Policy, January 20, 2021 (with Joan Donovan).

“A Blueprint for Documenting and Debunking Misinformation Campaigns.” Nieman Reports, October 20, 2020, (with Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, and Brian Friedberg).

“The Risks of Exaggerating Foreign Influence Operations and Disinformation.” Centre for International Governance Innovation, August 7, 2020.

“Repress/Redress: What the ‘War on Terror’ Can Teach Us about Fighting Misinformation.” Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review 1, no. 5, July 22 (2020) (with Alexei Abrahams).

“3 Ways To Counter Authoritarian Overreach During the Coronavirus Pandemic.” Nieman Reports, April 22, 2020 (with Brian Friedberg and Joan Donovan).

“Republicans Want Twitter to Ban Chinese Communist Party Accounts. That’s a Dangerous Idea.” Slate, April 3, 2020, (with Joan Donovan).

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