Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit�t M�nchen (LMU Munich) and founder of the Centre for Digital Dignity, an international network of researchers, policy makers and civil society groups to collaboratively imagine and foster enabling spaces of political expression online. Her teaching and research interests include politics and cultures of artificial intelligence, online extreme speech, misinformation, critical digital studies, and Internet policy. Udupa is the author of the UN commissioned research paper, "Digital technology and extreme speech: Approaches to tackle online hate". Her books include, "Making News on Global India: Media, Publics, Politics" (Cambridge University Press); "Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media" (New York University Press, with Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan); "Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech" (Indiana University Press, ed. with Iginio Gagliardone & Peter Hervik) and "Media as Politics in South Asia" (Routledge, ed. with Stephen McDowell). A new book "WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation and Extreme Speech on Encrypted Messaging" (ed with Herman Wasserman) is contracted with New York University Press. She is currently co-editing "Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence" with Michiel Baas and Peter Hervik. Udupa is the recipient of Joan Shorenstein Fellowship at Harvard University, Francqui Chair (Belgium) and European Research Council grant awards. Most recently, she received the ERC consolidator grant (2M euros) for a multiyear study on contentious speech on small social media platforms.