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Bret Schafer

Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow, Alliance for Securing Democracy
Washington, DC

Bret Schafer is the Alliance for Securing Democracy’s media and digital disinformation fellow. He has a master’s in public diplomacy from the University of Southern California, and a BS in communications with a major in radio/television/film from Northwestern University. As an expert in computational propaganda, he has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times, and he has regularly been interviewed on NPR, PBS, and BBC radio. Prior to joining GMF, he spent more than ten years in the television and film industry, including stints at Cartoon Network and as a freelance writer for Warner Brothers. He also worked in Budapest as a radio host, in Berlin as a semi-professional baseball player in Germany’s Bundesliga, and in Moscow as an intern in the Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy in Russia.

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