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Ciarán O’Connor

Ciarán O’Connor

Senior Analyst

Ciarán O’Connor is a Senior Analyst at ISD UK, working in the Research and Policy unit. Ciarán specialises in using open-source research to track and monitor information operations and extremism online, with a particular focus on far-right activity and communication across both open and closed networks and platforms. Ciarán previously worked as a journalist on the investigations team at Storyful, a social media news agency that specialises in the verification and analysis of amateur footage and information operations online.