Laura Edelson
Laura Edelson is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on the understanding the spread of harmful content on large online networks and using user data donation to understand social media algorithmic systems. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, and she has written about the need for transparency about social media algorithms in opinion writing for Scientific American and the New York Times. She is the co-Director of Cybersecurity for Democracy and the former Chief Technologist of the Antitrust Division and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.
