Google

Senior Strategist

Policy Enforcement Manager 

Twitter

- Worked on platform integrity issues including — investigating information harm on platform from bad actors. IO, disinformation, spam and cyber espionage. 

- Day to day handling of tasks related to fake/fraud accounts and their behavior against platform's policies

- Researched, analyzed and contributed to development of policies related to platform integrity. 

- Contributed to up skilling of Open Source methodologies for investigations work. 

- Built trackers for threat intel development

Information Integrity and Safety Specialist

- Worked on investigations related to platform manipulation
- Contributed to policy-making on making platform secure
- Worked on cyberespionage and information security investigations.

Information Integrity Analyst

Atlantic Council

For the Atlantic Council's DFRLab, I work as a researcher/investigator studying information integrity. I use my background in computational journalism and data science to understand cybersecurity information systems. *For media mentions of my work please refer to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11jTveJBBgSjYmrxADA1lTw5uquZM7sZmtdb7oZ-JgtI


Research: 
- Weekly/bi-monthly research:
shorturl.at/dfRT2

- Big projects: 
atlanticcouncil.org/expert/kanishk-karan/

Projects:
- Worked on a report for the G7 on giving recommendations to counter foreign influence. 
- Prepared a report on assessment of information landscape distortion in the 2019 Canadian elections. 
- I developed an open-source tool list for journalists, researchers and government officials. It is accessible to all.
- Developed programs for scraping relevant data from social media platforms: Twitter and TikTok. 
- Hosted competitions at Kaggle for non-programmers by giving them fundamental training. 


Trainings:
- For government officials at NATO StratCOM COE. 
- For Senate staffers and officials at Washington DC. 
- For DataFest Georgia participants 
- For students at India's top journalism institute - IIMC

Research Associate

Scroll Media

As part of the fellowship, I was the only tech reporter at the daily covering Aadhaar, privacy, censorship, and surveillance.

Reporting Fellow

VICE Media

Contributed to reporting on various topics related to gender and human rights.

Intern

9.9 Media

Wrote cover story for the August 2017 issue, among other tech pieces

Contributing Writer

10 Minutes to 1

Wrote articles daily for company's tech website: www.mybigplunge.com

Armoks Group

Covering two to three news stories daily for the website: www.trak.in

TechRadar India

Reviewed gadgets and covered news stories related to technology

The Hindu

Worked as a graphic designer, making data graphics for the news daily

Seasoned Trust and Safety practitioner with experience in working across non-profit and tech

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