Andrew Marantz

Journalist and writer covering online extremism, propaganda, and the intersection of technology and politics. Staff writer at The New Yorker.

Sources in this wiki

• Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists (TED 2019)

Topics

• computational-propaganda, radicalization, online-subcultures, platform-algorithms

Notes

Marantz's investigative work focuses on how ordinary individuals exploit social media algorithmic incentives to spread propaganda and radicalize communities. His ethnographic approach—embedding with propagandists to observe their tactics firsthand—provides rare insider perspective on the mechanics of online extremism.