SELECTION OF RECENT INTERVIEWS, COMMENTARY, ETC.:

February 2019: Interviewed for a BBC4 program on conspiracy theories, "Conspiracy Politics"; interview with me, focused on cognitive hacking, influence operations and extra-factual information, published in the Winter 2019 issue of the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs.

January 2019: "The True Cost of the Border Wall," Tufts Now.

December 2018: Quoted in Sahil Kapur, "Trump's Wall Shutdown Sets Table for Risky 2020 Gamble," Bloomberg News.

November 2018: Participated in "Science Denial: Lessons and Solutions," a symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences--our panel is archived on Livestream here; interviewed by Tavni Misra of The Atlantic for her piece, "On Weaponizing Migration."

July 2018: "How Trump Manipulates the Migration Debate: The Use and Abuse of Extra-factual Information," Foreign Affairs; profile in JUMBO Magazine..

June 2018: "Science Denialism, Public Policy and Global Health" panel at the New York Academy of Sciences, with Science Friday's Ira Flatow as moderator; archived via Livestream here, Facebook Live pre-panel interview here, and Scientific American's review of the event here.

May 2018: Interviews with Italian TV and print journalists, including the dailies Il Messaggero and Messaggero Veneto, in conjunction with my appearances at the 2018 E'Storia Festival in Gorizia, Italy, one of which can be found here; Interview with Aroop Mukharji on his show/podcast, Snack Break, about my book ms, Fear and Present Danger; Apple podcast here.

April 2018: Panel discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations: "Political Disruptions: Combating Disinformation and Fake News."

March 2018: Interview with Courtney Hollands ("Taking Fake News to Task") about our newly published piece in Science, "The Science of Fake News."

November 2017: Interview with Lillo Montalto Monella of Euronews/NBC on the recent uptick in migrants and asylum seekers arriving in Italy.

October 2017: Interviewed by Daniel Funke for a Poynter Institute piece, "Where there is a rumor, there is an audience. This study sheds light on why some take off," which profiles findings of our new ISQ article, "Rumor Has It: The Adoption of Unverified Information in Conflict Zones." 

September 2017: European Council on Foreign Relations podcast, "The End of the World" on threats to the liberal world order (on Soundcloud); MIT Security Studies Program Alumni Spotlight.

August 2017: Interview with Roberto Vivaldelli in the Italian daily, Il Giornale.

May 2017: "Faking news: Only by understanding the long and disturbing history of 'alternative facts' can we diminish their disruptive power," "Q&A" feature in Tufts Magazine.

April 2017: Interview with Mattia Ferrarisi in Panorama, the Italian weekly magazine; "Spotlight" feature in the April issue of PS: Political Science and Politics, p. 581. 

​March 2017: Interviews in the Italian newspapers, La Stampa (with Francesca Paci) and Quotidiano Nazionale (with Luca Bolognini), in conjunction with publication of the Italian edition of my book, Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign Policy.

December 2016: NEH press release announcing 2017 fellowship awards, including one for my book project on extra-factual information in international politics ("Whispers of War, Mongers of Fear: Extra-factual Sources of Threat Conception and Proliferation").
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November 2016: Interview with IAF on human trafficking and smuggling and the politics of numbers in global crime and conflict.
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August 2016: “Unpacking the Facts Behind Europe’s ‘Odd Migration Policy Choices’,” invited contribution to a debate on the EU migration crisis in the APSA Migration and Citizenship Newsletter.

May 2016: Interview as part of Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center "Office Hours" series.
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December 2015: "Demographic Bombing: People as Weapons in Syria and Beyond,” Foreign Affairs; Interview with Alexander Marguier in the German weekly arts and politics magazine, Cicero.

November 2015: "Europe Must Fight Terrorism Within its own Borders," New York Times; Quoted in Adam Geller in "Comparing Refugees of Today to Those of WWII," Associated Press; Quoted in Simon Montlake, "Why Countries are Walling Themselves In, and Others Out," Christian Science Monitor.

May 2015: Soundcloud podcast of "Weapons of Mass Migration," University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre; also available on iTunes.

February 2015: "Nigeria’s Countless Casualties: The Politics of Counting Boko Haram’s Victims,” Foreign Affairs.