Emma Briant

Emma L. Briant is a British scholar and academic researcher on media, contemporary propaganda, surveillance and information warfare who was involved in exposing the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal concerning data misuse and disinformation. She is an associate researcher at Bard College and teaches in the School of Communication at American University. Briant became an honorary associate in Cambridge University Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability, headed by Prof. Alan Jagolinzer, and joined Central European University, as a Fellow in the Center for Media, Data and Society in 2022.