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Jan Rau works on questions of the digital transformation of politics and society, focusing on the digital transformation of public sphere. He studied at the Oxford Internet Institute and at the University of Cologne. He is currently a research fellow at the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences and at Princeton University (USA), researching phenomena such as opinion manipulation on the Internet, echo chambers, digital counterpublics and right-wing populism. He tweets under @realJanRau. Felix Simon is a journalist and researcher and a graduate of the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute (OII). He is the former acting editor of the EJO and works as a research assistant at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. His writing on tech, politics, and the media has appeared, amongst others, in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, “Die Welt” and “Der Freitag”, the Swiss “NZZ” as well as in the “Telegraph” and “The New European”. He has published in journals such as “Journalism Studies” and “Transformative Works and Cultures”. His research focuses on political communication in the digital age, big data in politics and the entertainment industry, as well as the changing nature of journalism and the media in the 21st century. He also takes a side interest in populism and the future of disinformation. He tweets under @_FelixSimon_.