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Jiore Craig, a Resident Senior Fellow at ISD, has extensive experience in measuring the impact of influence campaigns on public opinion, and how to respond to the threat disinformation poses to democracy.
Follow @JioreCFrancesca is ISD's Director of the Digital Analysis Unit, working to ensure our research methods, tools and approaches in the digital analysis space remain consistent and innovative.
Follow @f_arcostanzoMilo Comerford heads ISD's research approaches and policy responses to extremisms. His writing and research features frequently in international media and he has made recent broadcast appearances on BBC News, Sky News and Al Jazeera.
Follow @@MiloComerfordJacob Davey is the Director of Research & Policy for Far-right and Hate Movements at ISD.
Follow @@jacob_p_daveyJennie King is the Director of Climate Research and Policy, leading efforts to translate ISD’s digital research into frontline programming and response.
Follow @jkingyMelanie Smith is the Director of Research for ISD US. Based in Washington DC, she leads a team of analysts focused on detecting, exposing and mitigating the threats associated with online information operations. Melanie was previously the Director of Analysis at the network analytics firm Graphika, re-joining ISD in 2021 to expand the organization’s research portfolio in the US. Her recent work has focused on topics like state-backed influence campaigns, public health misinformation and election-related violence.
Follow @https://twitter.com/MelanieFSmithTim Squirrell has extensive experience advising governments and others on counter-extremism and counter-terrorism, particularly far-right and neo-Nazi movements, incels and misogynist communities, and esoteric threats such as school shooters.
Follow @timsquirrellAoife Gallagher is a Senior Analyst on ISD’s Digital Analysis Unit, focusing on the intersection between far-right extremism, disinformation and conspiracy theories.
Follow @@aoifegallKevin D. Reyes is a Senior OSINT Specialist at ISD, where he leads methodology for open-source investigations and researches online hate, extremism, conspiracy theories and disinformation.
Follow @KevinDReyesCécile Simmons is a Research Manager at ISD, specialising in malign influence operations targeting elections, public health and climate disinformation, far-right extremism and conspiracy theories.
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