Megan A. Brown

I am a PhD student in Information and Scientific Computing at the University of Michigan where I am advised by Libby Hemphill and Maggie Levenstein. My research is centered on the online information ecosystem. I study political bias in algorithmic systems, the effect of platform governance and moderation policies on the spread of political content, and research infrastructure to support computational social science. Formerly, I was Sr. Research Engineer at the Center for Social Media and Politics at New York University where I collected and maintained large-scale collections of social media and digital trace data for social science research. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Politics with a minor in Middle East & Islamic Studies from New York University in 2019.