Emerson Brooking

Emerson T. Brooking is a Resident Fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, focused on disinformation, technology policy, and electoral security. He is the coauthor of LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) and has advised numerous U.S. military commands and government agencies regarding the evolution of information warfare and public diplomacy. Previously, Brooking was a Research Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he studied U.S. defense policy. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.