Speaker Profile
Tamar Mitts is an Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs and a Faculty Member at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, the Institute of Global Politics, and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. Her research addresses emerging challenges at the intersection of technology and security. She studies how militant and hate groups use digital platforms for mobilization and recruitment, how state and non-state actors shape public opinion by manipulating media content, and how technology companies address growing trust and safety issues on their platforms.
Mitts鈥� book, Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism, offers a novel account of how content moderation shapes the activity of harmful content producers. Her research has been cited in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Fortune, Vox, War on the Rocks, and Foreign Policy.
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