Becca Lewis

Becca Lewis is an interdisciplinary scholar who examines the rise of right-wing politics in Silicon Valley and online. She holds a PhD in Communication Theory and Research from Stanford University and an MSc in Social Science from the University of Oxford. Her work has been published in academic journals including New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, and American Behavioral Scientist, and in news outlets such as The Guardian and Business Insider. She previously worked as a researcher at the Data & Society Research Institute, where she published the organization’s flagship reports on media manipulation, disinformation, and right-wing digital media. In 2022, she served as an expert witness in the defamation lawsuit brought against Alex Jones by the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim.