Bret Schafer is the Alliance for Securing Democracy’s social media analyst and communications officer. He has a master’s in public diplomacy from the University of Southern California and a B.S. 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 the Los Angeles Times, and he has regularly been interviewed on NPR, PBS, CNN, and CBS and BBC radio.