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Camille François

Camille François

French digital disinformation researcher

Camille François is a French researcher working on digital disinformation and cyber security, and the chief innovation officer at Graphika,[1] a company providing insights on social media landscapes. She tracks how states are using social media for disinformation and misinformation.[2]

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Some of her research focused on individual accounts from people working for troll farms such as the Internet Research Agency,[3] and she provided testimonies on Russian electoral influence operations for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.[4]

Education and career

François holds a master's degree from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and a master's degree in international security from Columbia University in 2013. She worked at Jigsaw, a unit within Google dedicated to exploring threats to open societies. She is a Fulbright fellow and served as the special advisor to the CTO of France within the prime minister's office.[5]

She was featured as a Time 100 Next fellow in 2019[6] and as an innovator under 35 by theTechnology Review.[7]

She is an affiliate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University[8] and joined Niantic in 2021 as their global director of trust & safety.[9]

References

  1. [1]
    Camille François, Chair of Advisory Board – Graphika
  2. [2]
    Camille François MIA '13: An Optimist Mind – Columbia University
  3. [3]
    troll The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018 Computational Propaganda Research Project – University of Oxford
  4. [4]
    This former Google exec talked to the social media trolls the Russians paid to influence elections — here's what she learned – CNBC
  5. [5]
    Camille François on Cybersecurity and Democracy – Berkeley School of Information
  6. [6]
    Camille François Times 100 Next: Camille François – Time
  7. [7]
    Innovators Under 35: Camille François – MIT Technology Review
  8. [8]
    Camille François – Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
  9. [9]
    Welcoming Camille Francois to Niantic – Niantic
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