Dr. Samuel Woolley’s writing, research and teaching focuses on emerging technology and manipulation. He examines how a wide variety of groups use digital tools in attempts to both control public opinion and enable democratic engagement. Before joining Pitt, Sam led research teams at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Oxford, the University of Washington, and the Institute for the Future. He has served as a research fellow at Google Jigsaw, the Anti-Defamation League, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, GlobSec, the Center for Media, Data and Society, and the Tech Policy Lab. He is a former visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), a former research associate of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and former research affiliate at Stanford’s Program on Democracy and the Internet.