Yael Eisenstat

Yaël D. Eisenstat is an American democracy activist and technology policy expert who has spent over two decades combatting extremism, polarization, and anti-democratic behavior both on- and offline. With experience as one the United States government's top counterextremism officials and as Facebook's former Global Head of Elections Integrity Ops, Eisenstat is best known for being a pioneering voice in shaping public understanding of the ways in which social media contributes to polarization and radicalization.
Eisenstat currently serves as Director of Policy and Impact at Cybersecurity Research Center (formerly Cybersecurity for Democracy), a nonpartisan, independent research institution that exposes online threats to democracy and proposes research-based policy insights on how best to combat them. There, her work focuses on democratic discourse on major social media platforms, AI-powered political messaging, and open information sharing practices in advance of the 2024 presidential...