Samuel C. Woolley

Samuel Woolley, PhD, is a writer, researcher, and professor based in Austin, Texas. He is a faculty member in the School of Journalism & Media and program director of the Propaganda Research Lab at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. His work looks at how emerging media tools are used to manipulate public opinion. Woolley is the founding director of the Digital Intelligence Lab at the Institute for the Future, a fifty-year-old think-tank based in the heart of Silicon Valley, and co-founder and former research director of the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He has written for Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic Monthly, Wired, VICE’s Motherboard, TechCrunch, the Guardian, and Slate. He has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal and on The Today Show, BBC’s News at Ten, and NBC Nightly News.