Mitch Chaiet
Mitch Chaiet just graduated from UT’s film school studying disinformation and digital campaigns. He analyzed how Russian organizations like the IRA weaponized memes to spread disinformation during the 2016 Presidential election. Mitch was able to "reverse engineer" the content sourcing, creation methodology, and targeting.” For an example of how he collected, organized, analyzed and visualized the 3,500 ads submitted to Congress for analysis of their use on Facebook, please view his interactive report here (desktop only): https://mitchaiet.github.io/RussianAds/ In his spare time, he has continued his studies of digital disinformation tactics with focus on the weaponization of manufactured content and its amplification through social media profiles and non-human traffic (bots).
