Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, and Brian Friedberg

Joan Donovan, PhD, is the research director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center and one of the foremost experts on media and disinformation in the world. Emily Dreyfuss is a journalist who covers the intersection of society and technology; her writing has appeared in WIRED, The Atlantic, and The New York Times, among other publications. Brian Friedberg is an ethnographer at Harvard Kennedy School, who researches far-right and political communities online and published definitive Qanon explainers in WIRED and The Hill. Together, the authors work on Harvard Kennedy School's Technology and Social Change Research Project out of Cambridge, Massachusetts.