shelby grossman

Shelby Grossman, PhD

  • Research Scholar, Stanford Internet Observatory
  • CDDRL Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-17
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Biography

Shelby Grossman is a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory. Her primary research interests are in online safety and comparative politics. She has ongoing projects on online-facilitated crimes against children, large language models and propaganda, ransomware, and safety issues related to search. Shelby's research has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Political Communication, World Development, and World Politics. Her book, "The Politics of Order in Informal Markets," was published by Cambridge University Press. She is co-editor of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety, and teaches classes at Stanford on open source investigation and online trust and safety issues. 

Shelby was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Memphis from 2017-2019, and a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law from 2016-17. She earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2016.

publications

Case Studies
August 2022

Mind Farce: An Investigation into an Inauthentic Facebook and Instagram Network Linked to an Israeli Public Relations Firm

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Case Studies
December 2021

The New Copyright Trolls: How a Twitter Network Used Copyright Complaints to Harass Tanzanian Activists

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cover link The New Copyright Trolls: How a Twitter Network Used Copyright Complaints to Harass Tanzanian Activists
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December 2021

In Bed with Embeds: How a Network Tied to IRA Operations Created Fake “Man on the Street” Content Embedded in News Articles

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cover link In Bed with Embeds: How a Network Tied to IRA Operations Created Fake “Man on the Street” Content Embedded in News Articles

In The News

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The Stanford Internet Observatory Turns Three

SIO releases its annual report summarizing its first three years of research, teaching and policy and laying the path for the years to come.
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Seven tips for spotting disinformation related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Shelby Grossman shares what she and her team watch for when analyzing social media posts and other online reports related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Appeared first in Stanford News)
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The first issue of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety

The journal of Online Trust and Safety published its inaugural issue on Thursday, October 28.
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