EXPERIENCE
Ben currently serves as CTO and President of Omelas, a firm dedicated to preserving democracy against the disruptions of the internet age, and as a fellow at the Center for European Policy and Analysis. Before Omelas, Ben was President of Code To Inspire, a nonprofit that taught Afghan women to code and find work online, and a consultant for Google where he played a lead role in removing ISIS content from YouTube and establishing the Redirect Method, a digital CVE effort. Ben's deep technical knowledge of data architecture and machine learning allows for uniquely extensive and original research and analysis. Ben speaks Arabic, French, Farsi, and Russian.
COVERAGE OF THE WAR ON UKRAINE
- Misinformation in the Latino Community, Meet The Press Reports
- Russian propaganda targeting Spanish-language users proliferates on social media, NBC News
- Google’s YouTube could be ensnared in sanctions on pro-Russia figures who run widely-viewed channels with ads, South China Morning Post
- Big Tech caught in information war between west and Russia, Financial Times
- Caught in Russia-Ukraine Crossfire: How big Tech is Handling Its First Major War, Bloomberg Quint
DISDAIN FROM KREMLIN PRESS
- Russia "eclipsed" the United States in covering the topic of Ukraine in the Spanish-speaking segment, RIA Novosti
- Russia leads in covering the situation in Ukraine in Spanish-speaking countries, TV Zvezda
- Russia seized leadership in coverage of Ukrainian events among the Hispanic audience, Komsomolskaya Pravda
PUBLIC TALKS
- How disinformation campaigns work, from Russia to Latin America, Chuck Toddcast
- Ben Dubow on Detecting and Countering Malign Influence Operations, OODA Loop
- AI in the Age of Disinformation: The Problem or The Solution? AI Boost Lithuania
- War By Other Means: How Influence Warfare Subverts Democracy, DEFCON
- While The Bots Distracted You: Overt Russian Information Operations, DEFCON
- Educational Content and Behavior on the Net: Key to Deal With Global Problems, Empodera Conference
- Omelas, Techstars Chicago Demo Day
- Ben Dubow On State Department Rejection To Propaganda-Fighting Startup Founder, Boundless Podcast
- Is Countering Violent Extremism Measurable? New America
ATTENTION FROM FREE PRESS
- Study Shows How Russian, Chinese Disinformation About COVID-19 Evolved During The Pandemic, Radio Free Europe
- Russia’s Worldwide Influence Relies on YouTube, Euractiv
- Google Stays Silent On Russia's Growing Internet Threats, Bloomberg
- China is pushing a big COVID-19 lie, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Here’s how Russia’s RT spread propaganda in the lead-up to the election, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
- Trump’s Campaign Ads Run on Chinese State Media YouTube Channel, Bloomberg
- Russian Disinformation on YouTube Draws Ads, Lack Labels, Reuters
DISDAIN FROM KREMLIN PRESS
- American conditions require equating TV channels and pedophiles, RIA Novosti
- American experts demand equating TV channels to pedophiles, Sputnik (Russian, Latvian)
UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION WAR
Ben serves as a Democratic Resilience Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. His published pieces shed light on authoritarian doctrines and strategies for propaganda:
How Russian conspiracies make it to the Chinese Foreign Ministry
Why Russia's propaganda is so much more effective than China's
How Falun Gong, a Chinese dissident group, outperforms China with 1% of the budget
The history of Russia's international propaganda apparatus
The history of China's international propaganda apparatus