Yotam Ophir Author

Yotam Ophir, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University at Buffalo and a Distinguished Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on media effects, political and scientific misinformation, conspiracy theories, and extremism. Ophir has authored more than 50 book chapters and journal articles, in leading publications such as Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, American Journal of Public Health, and Journal of Communication. He is the head of the Media Effects, Misinformation, and Extremism (MEME) lab.