Dr. Emma L Briant is a scholar who researches contemporary propaganda and information warfare, and its governance in an age of mass-surveillance. Dr. Briant regularly contributes journalism and op-eds to major news outlets and has two books Bad News for Refugees, (Pluto Press, 2013, co-authored with Greg Philo and Pauline Donald) and Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change (Manchester University Press, 2015). She has served as advisor for several documentary films including, as Senior Researcher for Oscar-shortlisted Netflix film ‘The Great Hack’. She is now finalizing her third book Propaganda Machine and working on a fourth the co-edited Routledge Handbook on the Influence Industry with Vian Bakir, Bangor University, UK.