Currently: I’m a freelance reporter focusing on Russia’s war on Ukraine. I also cover technology, disinformation, and social media. I was born in Kyiv. I speak Ukrainian, English, and Russian. To get in touch for an assignment, see contact info below.
Recent work:
- Video Investigation: Inside Occupied Mariupol: Residents Scramble to Find Missing as Russia Rebuilds (Wall Street Journal)
- Video Investigation: Russia Is Using a Secret Network to Steal Ukraine Grain (Wall Street Journal)
- Ukrainians around the world aren’t just protesting – we’re fighting an information war (The Guardian)
- I Can’t Stop Watching a Livestream of Kyiv (The Atlantic)
- Why the balance of power in tech is shifting toward workers (MIT Tech Review)
Previously: Senior research fellow at the Tech and Social Change project, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School. I focused on devising a training curriculum for newsrooms and academics, auditing research, and digging into media manipulation cases globally.
More information: mediamanipulation.org
Previously: Senior reporter, BuzzFeed News. At BuzzFeed I focused on dis/misinformation, online investigations, and scams of all flavors. I also pioneered live breaking news debunking through crowdsourcing, a method many newsrooms now turn to regularly. My coverage areas also included Eastern Europe, technology, and human rights.
Select work:
- The Rioters Who Took Over The Capitol Have Been Planning Online In The Open For Weeks
- In 2020, Disinformation Broke The US
- The White Extremist Group Patriot Front Is Preparing For A World After Donald Trump
- Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online
- Hundreds Of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran And Qatar Have Been Removed From Facebook
- Scammers Are Tricking People Into Buying Puppies That Don’t Exist
- Puppies From Radioactive Chernobyl Are Starting New Lives In North America
- He Managed To Escape A Brutal Crackdown Against Gay Men. Others Won't Be So Lucky.
- Social Networks Are Losing A Deadly Battle With Illegal Online Pharmacies
- This Public Relations Firm Has Been Secretly Placing Articles In Conservative Publications
- The Money Is Rolling In For Liberal Hyperpartisan Sites And It’s Tearing Some Of Them Apart
- Inside The Partisan Fight For Your News Feed
Training and speaking: I’m an avid believer in online investigations and open-source intelligence (OSINT) as reporting tools. Together with my former colleague Craig Silverman I’ve taught courses through the Knight Foundation, the International Fact Checking Network, Investigative Reporters and Editors organization and many, many more. I’ve lectured at the University of Toronto, New York University, Harvard University, and others. I’ve appeared on television across the globe speaking to the issue of disinformation, from France, to Macedonia, to the US’s CNN, to my first home in Ukraine and my second home in Canada. I’ve also helped educate Canada’s teachers and students about the issue of disinformation through the Civix program. See contact information below to get in touch for a training or a paid speaking engagement.
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