Bots, beware: Camille François is coming for you.
Camille François’s colleagues like to say she’s the most optimistic person looking at the darkest corners of the Internet. François is chief innovation officer at Graphika, a New York–based company that uses artificial intelligence and other technologies to map out social-media interactions.
After the 2016 election, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence tapped Graphika, along with the University of Oxford, to analyze how Russia used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube to manipulate the American public. François spent seven months digging into the data, looking for what she calls “the ABC’s of disinformation”: the actors , the behavior , and the content .
The jump from human rights to tech may not seem obvious, but François saw the potential the Internet had to bring freedom to the oppressed. “My generation grew up as Internet optimists who thought cyberspace was going to bring democracy everywhere, help spread human rights, and expose corruption,” François says. “When the tech I loved became a vector for abuse, I wanted to understand how that happened and how we could set it straight.
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