Alexei Abrahams
Description
Dr Alexei Abrahams leads the digital trace project at the Canadian Media Ecosystem Observatory, where he and his team continuously monitor social media to provide Canadians with a motion picture of their national political discourse, and to detect incidents of disinformation, foreign interference, hate speech, and other online harms. Dr Abrahams is also the author of Social Media Observatory, an upcoming book at No Starch Press that teaches readers how to develop full-stack web applications in Python to scrape and analyze social media in the public interest.