| Camille François | |
| Alma Mater: | Sciences Po, Columbia University |
| Known For: | Digital disinformation, cyberwarfare |
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]
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]
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]