Jacqueline Malaret
Jacqueline Malaret is an assistant director at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) based in Washington, DC. Jacqueline received a bachelor’s degree in international affairs from George Washington University and Sciences Po Paris, with an emphasis on national security politics and comparative political, economic, and social systems. During her undergraduate studies Jacqueline worked as a peer writing preceptor for a course on nuclear security. Her interest in disarmament and arms control led her to the DFRLab, where she conducts research on, and advocates for institutional policies which promote digital resilience in the public and private sector.
December 2023
Distortion by design: How social media platforms shaped our initial understanding of the Israel-Hamas conflict
Almost as soon as the Israel-Hamas war began, it collided with the engineering and policy decisions of social media companies. On Telegram, terrorist content spread mostly uncontested; on X, false claims proliferated. Accusations of anti-Palestinian bias at Meta and pro-Palestinian bias at TikTok added to the confusion. Can the platforms thread this needle?
December 2023
Learning more about platforms from the first Digital Services Act transparency disclosures
An analysis of platform reporting on content moderation teams' language skills
October 2023
As Israel and Hamas go to war, the Digital Services Act faces its first major test
The EU’s first actions in the context of the conflict will inevitably set standards for this landmark law’s long-term impact
