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Joan Donovan

Harvard Kennedy School
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Researcher at Harvard Kennedy School studying media manipulation, computational propaganda, and disinformation tactics. Director of the Shorenstein Center's media manipulation research project.

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Donovan leads the mediammanipulation.org project, an encyclopedia of tactics used by disinformation actors. Her research examines how coordinated campaigns exploit platform design and academic infrastructure (preprint archives, social media algorithms) to spread false narratives at scale. Author of Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Fueling the Breakdown of American Public Discourse.