Meredith Furbish

Meredith Furbish is a visiting researcher at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab focusing on foreign information manipulation and interference in American elections.

She has previously contributed to research at the Center for Strategy, Technology, and Policy at Georgia Tech and interned with the Woodrow Wilson Center and the Global Engagement Center. She was also a 2022 Fellow of the Monterrey Summer Symposium on Russia.

Meredith holds master’s degrees in international affairs and global media, as well as a bachelor’s degree in international affairs with Russian language, all from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her graduate capstone investigated Russian media coverage of Western sanctions.

December 2024

How inauthentic accounts exploit Telegram comments to spread anti-Ukrainian narratives

by Roman Osadchuk, Iryna Adam, Givi Gigitashvili, Meredith Furbish

Analysis of more than 580,000 comments shows pattern of narrative attacks amplified via coordinated behavior; additional instances appeared in Facebook comments
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October 2024

Russia-linked media outlets amplify conspiracies about US election rule changes

by Meredith Furbish

Kremlin-linked outlets fueling unfounded claims about voter fraud in US swing states
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October 2024

DFRLab launches the 2024 Foreign Interference Attribution Tracker

by Dina Sadek, Meredith Furbish, Max Rizzuto

FIAT dashboard documents allegations of foreign malign information operations in the 2024 US general election
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