Camille François

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]

Camille François
Alma materSciences Po, Columbia University
Known forDigital disinformation, cyberwarfare
Scientific career
InstitutionsGraphika
Niantic
Harvard University
Google

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


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