Public Speaking & Media

Selected Public Speaking & Policy Engagement

Pavliuc, A. (2023). Cyber and Information Warfare. Expert Roundtable Contributor at Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, UK, April 20.

———— (2022). Gendered Disinformation: A Tool in the Authoritarian Toolkit. International Idea Expert Speaker at the Canadian Embassy to Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, December 1.

———— (2022). Russian Disinformation: A Threat to Ukraine, Canada, and Beyond. Expert panelist at the Triennial Congress of Ukrainian Canadians, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 28.

———— (2022). Gendered Disinformation: Reassessing Threats in a Post-Pandemic World. G7 Facts Vs. Disinformation Conference Panelist, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany, April 7.

———— (2021). Turning data into insight – understanding the social media space. NATO StratCom COE Social Media Conference Panelist, Riga, Latvia, June 18.

———— (2021). Charting a Path in Disinformation Studies. Ukrainian Canadian Student’s Union Networking Night Keynote Speaker. Toronto, Canada, May 24.

———— (2020). Disinformation and Elections. United Nations Development Program Briefing Panelist, December 8.

———— (2020). Disinformation and Influence Campaigns. Canadian Embassy to Japan Seminar Series Panelist. Tokyo, Japan, October 27.

———— (2020). Forging Leadership in Disinformation Studies. Paul Yuzyk Leadership Webinar Keynote Speaker. Ottawa, Canada, October 24.

———— (2020). Debunking Disinformation Research Lecture. Canadian Embassy event at Kaunas Technical University. Kaunas, Lithuania, March 13.

———— (2018). Inquiry into Disinformation and ‘Fake News’, quantitative evidence submitted to inquiry. UK Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee, London, UK, December 4.

Opinion Editorials & Commentaries:

Dergacheva, D., Pavliuc, A., Collyer, M., Kuznetsnova, V., Guttel, L., Wright, J., McBride, K. (2024). 2024 Russian Presidential Elections – How Digital Technologies Are Used to Wield Authoritarian Power. Oxford Internet Institute Blog Post, March 13.

Pavliuc, A. (2021). Kamala Harris abuse campaign shows how trolls evade social media moderation. The Conversation UK, January 25.

Pavliuc, A. (2020). Watch Six Decade-Long Disinformation Operations Unfold in Six Minutes. The Startup on Medium, January 26. Article received 99,000+ views.

Pavliuc, A. (2020). DisInfoVis: How to Understand Networks of Disinformation Through Visualization. Towards Data Science on Medium, September 25. Article received 4,400+ views.

Pavliuc, A. (2018). How I Found My Own Path & Created My Own Tools. CBC Digital Labs, July 18.

Pavliuc, A. (2018). 1,082 YouTube videos and an algorithm under scrutiny: Inside our Ontario election research project. CBC Digital Labs, June 4.

Media Interviews & Quotes

Chowdhury, H. (2024). Joe Biden’s bombshell revives Elon Musk’s ambitions to make X the world’s digital town square. Business Insider, July 22.

Hamilton, I. (2022). Elon Musk claims Twitter’s ban on Donald Trump amplifies Trump’s voice among the right. That’s not quite true. Business Insider, May 15.

Hignett, K. (2021). From Russia with hate: How pro-Kremlin bots are fuelling chaos and lies about the pandemic. Metro UK, July 10.

Ravlic, Tom. (2021). Online Abuse and Women in Public Life. The Critical Line Podcast. June 2.

Davies, Stephen. (2020). Analysing state-backed disinformation social media with Alexa Pavliuc. New Influence Podcast, April 3.

Selected Research Features

Bierman, N. (2021). Black, female and high-profile, Kamala Harris is a top target in online fever swamps. Los Angeles Times, February 19.

Editorial Team. (2019). Russian trolls experimented with different methods to maximise political disruption. Engineering And Technology, June 5.

Rogers, K. (2019). Russian Twitter trolls tested out multiple techniques to disrupt U.S. election. CBC News, June 4.

Wise, M. (2018). How a 9/11 Truther may be influencing which Ontario election videos you see. CBC News, May 26.

Staff. (2015). RIP HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot. BBC World Service, August 3.

Staff. (2015). Hitchhiking Robot Is Travelling The US To Find Out If Robots Can Trust Humans. Yahoo News UK, July 17.