Craig Silverman

Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist and author and one of the world’s leading experts on online disinformation, fake news, and digital investigations. He is the cofounder of Indicator, a newsletter and website dedicated to exposing digital deception and to equipping professionals with knowledge and skills to help them investigate it.

Prior to Indicator, he was a national reporter for ProPublica covering voting, platforms, disinformation, and online manipulation. Silverman previously served as media editor of BuzzFeed News, where he pioneered coverage of digital disinformation and media manipulation. Silverman is also the editor of the European Journalism Centre’s Verification Handbook series. These free online books offer world-class guidance on how to verify online content and investigate disinformation and media manipulation.