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Media Appearances
March 14, 2024: National Liberty Museum Artificial: Intelligence, Elections, And The Future Of Democracy
February 10, 2024: PBS NewsHour: Can social media companies safeguard the 2024 election against misinformation?
February 6, 2024: Oversight Board: Are social media platforms ready for the year of global elections?
February 3, 2024: Latika Takes Long-read: Big Tech's election year, in conversation with Katie Harbath
January 25, 2024: CyberScoop - Safe Mode Episode: Threats to elections in 2024 and a deepfake in New Hampshire
January 20, 2024: Social & Media Matters Talks with Katie Harbath
January 17, 2024: Rstreet: Online Content Moderation from the Trenches: Veterans Who Have Fought the Fight
January 11, 2024: NYT: Elections and Disinformation Are Colliding Like Never Before in 2024
January 4, 2024: Foreign Affairs: Defending the Year of Democracy
December 29, 2023: NPR: 2024 elections are ripe targets for foes of democracy
December 28, 2023: TIME: The Ultimate Election Year: All the Elections Around the World in 2024
December 26, 2023: Aljazeera: Will the 2024 US election save TikTok from near-death?
December 6, 2023: The Atlantic Council: Elections everywhere all at once: Navigating the 2024 Elections
November 2, 2023: Internet Law and Policy Foundation: Demystifying Election Security Misinformation with Katie Harbath [S4E32]
September 28, 2023: Tech Policy Press: Concerns Mount Over Social Media and 2024 Elections
September 13, 2023: Tech Brew: The Generative Elections: How AI could influence the 2024 US presidential race (and beyond)
September 6, 2023: Marketplace: X/Twitter’s political ad policy could affect elections around the world
August 25, 2023: Washington Post: Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
August 3, 2023: NYT: Facebook’s Algorithm Is ‘Influential’ but Doesn’t Necessarily Change Beliefs, Researchers Say
August 3, 2023: Washington Post: Disinfo researchers are under pressure from the right. They’re starting to push back.
July 28, 2023: The Week: Turns out Facebook isn't as polarizing as previously thought
July 27, 2023: Politico: New studies: Facebook doesn’t make people more partisan
July 27, 2023: The Guardian: Changing Meta’s algorithms did not help US political polarization, study finds
July 27, 2023: The Verge Chronological feeds won’t fix platform polarization, new Meta-backed research suggests
June 1, 2023: Voice of America: Meta Threatens to Block News Content in California, Angering Press Freedom Advocates
May 25, 2023 Washington Post: Musk gives DeSantis a Twitter boost, breaking another tech norm
May 23, 2023: Washington Post: Meta to begin fresh layoffs, cutting heavily among business staff
May 11, 2023: Axios: Democracy isn't ready for its AI test
April 10, 2023: Voice of America: Twitter Criticized Over 'Government Funded Media' Label on Broadcasters
March 7, 2023: L.A. Times: Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis and Haley on Twitter
February 11, 2023: Modern Diplomacy: Defending Democracy Against a Rapidly Evolving Internet Landscape
February 21, 2023: SiriusXM: Katie Harbath on Challenge of Regulating Big Tech
February 9, 2023: Bloomberg: TikTok Reveals Russian Disinformation Network Targeting European Users
February 9, 2023: Vox: It’s official. Trump is back on Facebook and Instagram
February 10, 2023: CNBC Indonesia: Terungkap! TikTok Biang Kerok Perang Ukraina-Rusia
January 11, 2023: NewsChannel 2: Inside Facebook's high-stakes debate to reinstate Trump after a two-year ban
January 13, 2023: CBS: Meta Considers Whether to Allow Trump Back on Facebook
January 13, 2023: CNN Business: Inside Facebook’s high-stakes debate to reinstate Trump after a two-year ban
January 3, 2023: Campaigns & Elections: 5 Consultant Predictions For 2023: Where Do We Go From Here?
January 2, 2023: South China Morning Post: China Big Tech in 2023: TikTok owner ByteDance faces critical year as decisions in Washington and Beijing weigh on its future
September 22, 2022: Atlantic Live: The Impacts of Misinformation on the Future of America’s Democracy | The Atlantic Festival 2022
June 23, 2022: NYT: As Midterms Loom, Elections Are No Longer Top Priority for Meta C.E.O.
June 8, 2022: NPR: Sheryl Sandberg's legacy at Facebook
June 2, 2022: Vox: Sheryl Sandberg’s mixed legacy at Meta
June 2, 2022: Bloomberg: Sandberg’s Advertising Empire Leaves a Complicated Legacy
June 2, 2022: Washington Post: Sheryl Sandberg departure marks the end of an era for women in tech
May 19, 2022: Washington Post: The midterms are here. Critics say Facebook is already behind.
May 19, 2022: Rest of World: India’s answer to Twitter already offers self-verification
May 18, 2022: Atlantic Council: Wartime content moderation and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
May 16, 2022: POLITICO Playbook PM: SCOTUS shakes up the campaign finance world
May 4, 2022: YouTube: DHS Secretary Mayorkas testifies in Senate as end of Title 42 immigration rule nears
April 26, 2022: NewsTalkZB: Katie Harbath: I don't know if he fully realises how hard it's going to be
April 26, 2022: Channel 4 News: Musk won’t follow right-wing audience, says former Facebook policy director
April 26, 2022: The LA Times: Conservatives ecstatic about Elon Musk buying Twitter: ‘Time they get their comeuppance’
April 18th, 2022: Washington Post: Elon Musk wants a free speech utopia. Technologists clap back.
April 6, 2022: C&E: Digital Consultants Should Brace for Major Changes to Ad Targeting
March 31, 2022: Columbia Journalism Review: War in Ukraine is the latest platform moderation challenge
March 25, 2022: Washington Post: Social media wasn’t ready for this war. It needs a plan for the next one.
March 2, 2022: NPR: Tech's crackdown on Russian propaganda is a geopolitical high-wire act
February 7, 2022: Vox: The most outspoken Trump supporter in Silicon Valley is leaving Facebook’s board
January 29, 2022: NYT Guest Essay: Facebook Is Not Ready for the 2022 Election Wave
January 19, 2022: Politico: McCarthy’s love-hate relationship with Silicon Valley
January 9, 2022: POLITICO Playbook: Does Trump need Twitter?
January 9, 2022: CNN’s Reliable Sources: Facebook's former elections boss speaks out
January 9, 2022: CNN’s Reliable Sources: Harbath: Social networks like Facebook make 'impossible trade-offs'
January 9, 2022: CNN Business: ‘More soul searching:’ Facebook’s former elections boss speaks out about the platform
January 8, 2022: WSJ: Facebook’s Former Elections Boss Now Questions Social Media’s Impact on Politics
January 6, 2022: Politico: The online world still can’t quit the ‘Big Lie’
January 4, 2022: VOX/Recode: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Big Tech’s never-ending censorship loop
November 17, 2021: Washington Post Live: Free to State with Katie Harbath & Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
November 2, 2021: SiriusXM - Julie Mason Mornings: Katie Harbath on Election Misinformation & Facebook's Culpability
October 25, 2021: Newsy: Understanding Facebook's Global Impact
October 23, 2021: NYT: In India, Facebook Grapples With an Amplified Version of Its Problems
October 13, 2021: Policy for the People Podcast: Women in Tech
October 11, 2021: The Great Battlefield Podcast: Politics on Social Media
October 7, 2021: TIME: How Facebook Forced a Reckoning by Shutting Down the Team That Put People Ahead of Profits
October 7, 2021: Foreign Policy: Facebook’s Problems Aren’t Only in Washington
October 5, 2021: Politico: What Congress learned from the Facebook whistleblower
October 5, 2021: Politico: How the government could unfriend Facebook
October 4, 2021: Washington Post: Apologies were once staples after Facebook scandals. Now the company offers defiance.
October 4, 2021: MSNBC: All In with Chris Hayes
October 3, 2021: Recode: Why this Facebook scandal is different
September 28, 2021: BBC World News - Talking Business Asia: Big Tech vs India Government (Interview at 19:15 mark)
September 21, 2021: NYT: No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image
August 25, 2021: Newsy: A Tech Savvy Taliban (In The Loop)
August 3, 2021: NASDAQ/World Reimagined - Unifying Leadership: Building on Common Ground with Katie Harbath and Michael Slaby
August 3, 2021: Center for Information, Technology and Public Life: What does tech owe democracy
June 22, 2021: Axios: Team Trump's Facebook ads circumvent ban
June 4, 2021: Politico: Facebook wanted to escape the Trump trap. So much for that.
May 5, 2021: CNN: Facebook's former public policy director weighs in on Oversight Board's Trump decision
May 5, 2021: NewsNation: Facebook oversight board upholds Trump's social media ban but must review the penalty
May 4, 2021: Washington Post: Facebook and Trump are at a turning point in their long, tortured relationship
May 4, 2021: WJLA - Facebook oversight board to announce whether Trump may rejoin platforms
April 26, 2021: UW-Madison’s Political Science Podcast 1050 Bascom
April 21, 2021: This is not advice podcast: How should I think about finding the right job after a long tenure at one company?
April 15, 2021: Bloomberg: Facebook ‘Supreme Court’ Weighs Trump’s Social Media Fate
April 15, 2021: Digital Politics Podcast: Civic Engagement in the Age of Boycotts
March 21, 2021: Milwaukee’s WISN Upfront Program: Big Tech Faces Backlash
October 29, 2019: USA Today - Facebook: We shouldn't become the gatekeeper of truth on candidate ads
September 27, 2019: Asia Times - Facebook tightens Singapore political ad rules
August 28, 2019: Washington Post - Facebook to require buyers of political ads to provide more information about who paid for them
May 23, 2019: AdWeek - Facebook Employees Are No Longer Receiving Commissions on Sales of Political and Issue Ads
May 23, 2019: WSJ - Facebook Curbs Incentives to Sell Political Ads Ahead of 2020 Election
April 8, 2019: Hindustan Times - 40 teams, 30,000 people: Facebook’s army against fake news ahead of LS polls
January 24, 2019: Rappler - Elections in Philippines a 'top priority' – Facebook
January 24, 2019: GMA (Philippines) - Facebook vows to protect integrity of May PHL midterm polls
January 24, 2019: ABS-CBN News Online - Facebook boosts efforts to safeguard integrity of 2019 polls
January 22, 2019: Katadata.co.id (Indonesia) - “Eight steps from Facebook and WhatsApp to fight false news ahead of 2019 General Election”
January 10, 2019: Economic Times (India) - Indian elections top priority for Zuckerberg and Facebook: Katie Harbath
November 2, 2018: Cheddar - How Facebook is Fighting Midterms Fake News Around the Clock in its 'War Room'
October 18, 2018: The Verge - Inside Facebook’s election war room
September 19, 2018: The Hill - Facebook teaming with nonprofits to fight fake election news
July 24, 2018: Globo (Brazil) - Voter will be able to check history of candidates' ads on Facebook
May 24, 2018: NYT: Who’s behind those political ads on Facebook? Now, you can find out.
February 17, 2018: Reuters - Facebook plans to use U.S. mail to verify IDs of election ad buyers
July 21, 2016: Katie Couric at the Republican National Convention (timestamp 21:56)
November 6, 2012: WSJ - Who is Winning the Election on Facebook?
June 2, 2009: FOX News - Rising Stars on Fox and Friends
Speaking Engagements
June 24, 2021: Atlantic Council’s DFR Lab 360/Open Summit — 2024: Elections around the world
March 24, 2021: UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs Offner Lecture Series: Politics and Policy: Democracy in the Digital Age
August 13, 2019: Wilson Center - Disinformation and Technology (Starts at 01:20:55 mark)
June 29, 2019: Aspen Ideas Festival - 5 things Facebook is focusing on to improve election security
March 28, 2019: Atlantic Council - Digital resilience in Latin America: Automation, disinformation, and polarization in elections
March 21, 2019: OECD - Social media: The false friend of democracy?
March 11, 2019: SXSW - Bad guys attacking elections: It's not just us
January 10, 2019: Raisina 2019 | Defending Freedom and Countering Influence Operations
September 20, 2018: Bipartisan Policy Center - Social Media in the 2018 Campaign
June 24, 2018: CATO Institute - Social media's role in democracy
June 8, 2018: Atlantic Council 360/OS - Facebook's Katie Harbath on protecting election integrity
May 31, 2018: Personal Democracy Forum - Improving Civic Discourse on Facebook
May 23, 2018: Katie Harbath: Politicians and Social Media in the Global South Conference
March 26, 2018: Annenberg Public Policy Center - Protecting Elections Integrity on Facebook
February 17, 2018: National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)
February 5, 2018: State of the Net - Is the Internet Disrupting Democracy?
January 29, 2018: C-SPAN - Communicators and the State of the Net Conference, Part 1
March 29, 2016: Katie Harbath at Lincoln Initiative's Now Boarding Las Vegas
March 25, 2016: Campaigning Summit Europe 2016 - Katie Harbath
March 15, 2016: Manning Center - Technology And Politics In The 21st Century
October 1, 2015: The Paley Center for Media - Tech it Out: 2016 Voting Innovation & Outreach panel
June 29, 2015: MSNBC - The women bridging tech and politics in the 2016 election
May 26, 2015: Mashable Experiential - Facebook: What's New for the 2016 Presidential Run With Katie Harbath
May 22, 2015: United Nations Foundation - Online fans are constituents: Katie Harbath Digital Beltway
May 10, 2015: India Ministry of Information - An interaction with Katie Harbath, Global Manager, Facebook
August 7, 2014: 3CMA - Content Best Practices on Facebook
November 15, 2012: Bipartisan Policy Center - Beyond the Ballot - The Politics of Persuasion: The Methods of Media Messaging
August 27, 2012: Republican National Convention - Role of Digital and Social Media in Campaigns
August 22, 2012: C-SPAN - Communicators with Katie Harbath and Adam Conner
February 14, 2012: Brookings - Mobile Technology's Impact on Political Campaigns
January 20, 2012: Southern Republican Leadership Conference - Social media and political campaigns
January 8, 2012: Republican Primary Debate - Role of Facebook in Presidential Candidates Debate
October 14, 2008: National Press Club - Wireless Communications in Political Campaigns
Facebook Newsroom Posts
August 28, 2019: Updates to ads about social issues, elections or politics in the US
March 4, 2019: Working to safeguard elections in Indonesia
January 30, 2019: Working to safeguard elections in Taiwan
January 28, 2019: Expanding our efforts to protect elections in 2019
September 19, 2018: Q&A on transparency for electoral and issue ads
May 24, 2018: Why doesn’t Facebook just ban political ads?
May 17, 2018: Announcing new election partnership with Atlantic Council
January 22, 2018: Social media and democracy