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Shannon Pierson

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Shannon Pierson is an Affiliate of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Shannon is a digital threat investigator interested in combatting online harms at scale on social media platforms.
Shannon completed her bachelor’s degree in International Studies from the University of Washington. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Data & Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Previously, Shannon worked on election security projects at Microsoft and Meta. She studied online harassment campaigns and influence operations led by nation-states at the Wilson Center and German Marshall Fund think tanks. She also advised computer scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security throughout the development process of a model capable of identifying multimodal hate speech.
 
Her research has been published at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium on Security, the Wilson Center, and in the journal Disability & Society. 
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