Olga Belogolova
Lecturer
Director, Emerging Technologies Initiative
Faculty Co-Lead, Technology and Innovation Focus Area
About
Olga is the Director of the Emerging Technologies Initiative at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She is also a professor at the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at SAIS, where she teaches a course on disinformation and influence in the digital age.
At Facebook/Meta, she led policy for countering influence operations, coordinating the company's IO disruptions effort and leading execution and development of policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior, state media capture, and hack-and-leaks within the Trust and Safety team. Prior to that, she was a threat intelligence analyst at Facebook, identifying, tracking, and disrupting coordinated IO campaigns, leading work on Russia and Eastern Europe and in particular, the Internet Research Agency investigations between 2017-2019.
Olga previously worked as a journalist and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Journal, Inside Defense, and The Globe and Mail, among others.
She holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and European Studies from Boston University. She is a fellow with the Truman National Security Project.
At Facebook/Meta, she led policy for countering influence operations, coordinating the company's IO disruptions effort and leading execution and development of policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior, state media capture, and hack-and-leaks within the Trust and Safety team. Prior to that, she was a threat intelligence analyst at Facebook, identifying, tracking, and disrupting coordinated IO campaigns, leading work on Russia and Eastern Europe and in particular, the Internet Research Agency investigations between 2017-2019.
Olga previously worked as a journalist and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Journal, Inside Defense, and The Globe and Mail, among others.
She holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and European Studies from Boston University. She is a fellow with the Truman National Security Project.
In the News
Why Russia's Broadcaster RT Turned to Covertly Funding American Pro-Trump Influencers
National Public Radio, September 26, 2024
Tenet Media Posts Still Online, Despite U.S. Claims of Russian Influence Campaign
Reuters, September 6, 2024