John P. Wihbey is an associate professor of media innovation and technology in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University. He directs the graduate programs in Media Innovation and Data Communication, Journalism, and Media Advocacy, and he is a faculty researcher at Northeastern�s Ethics Institute. He has served as a research consultant for Twitter, Inc., and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. John is the author of The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2019).His writing and research have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, as well as New Media & Society, Yale Journal of Law and Technology, The Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, Journalism Practice, Oxford Research Encyclopedias, and International Conference on Web and Social Media, and International Conference on Social Media and Society. His research has received awards from the International Communication Association (ICA), National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), and Kantar Information Is Beautiful. He holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College, an M.S. from Columbia University, and a doctorate from Northeastern University.