Biography

Sergey Sanovich is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University and a Cyber Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. Sanovich received his Ph.D. in political science from NYU and continues his collaboration with the Social Media and Political Participation Lab (CSMaP). His research is focused on disinformation and social media platforms governance; online censorship and propaganda by authoritarian regimes; and elections and partisanship in information autocracies. It was published and is forthcoming at the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Research & Politics, Big Data, and as a lead chapter in an edited volume on disinformation from Oxford University Press. Sanovich has also contributed to several policy reports, particularly focusing on protection from disinformation, including “Securing American Elections,” which was issued at its launch by the Stanford Cyber Policy Center.