Awards and Selected Media Coverage

Awards

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recipient, 2022
• Microsoft Endowed Fellowship, 2019
• UW Dean's List, 10 times from December 2018-June 2022

Selected Media Coverage

This includes articles and podcasts about me and/or research to which I directly contributed.

• Two years of information chaos by Sara Fischer and Ashley Gold in Axios.
• Computer science undergraduate wins prestigious research scholarship to support work on misinformation and the role of social media by Julie Emory in The Daily, University of Washington.
• Here's How Anti-Vaxxers Are Spreading Misinformation Despite Your Best Moderation Efforts, by Patrick O'Keefe, Joseph S. Schafer, and Dr. Rachel Moran, in Community Signal.
• Facebook Takes on Superspreaders by Shira Ovide in The New York Times.
• Fagan: We’re working hard to rebuild trust in our elections by Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, in The Portland Tribune.
• A report sheds light on how Jan. 6 happened — and how to avoid a repeat by the Washington Post Editorial Board, in The Washington Post.
• How Misinformation ‘Superspreaders’ Seed False Election Theories by Sheera Frenkel in The New York Times.
• Opinion: Trump is the problem when it comes to disinformation. So what now? by the Washington Post Editorial Board, in The Washington Post.
• The unseen machine pushing Trump’s social media megaphone into overdrive by Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg in The Washington Post.
• For Trump’s ‘rigged’ election claims, an online megaphone awaits by Brandy Zadrozny in NBC News.
• Project Veritas Video Was a ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign,’ Researchers Say by Maggie Astor in The New York Times.