Aviv Ovadya

Former CSMR Architect Aviv Ovadya is a technologist and researcher focused on ensuring technology enables a positive future. He was one of the few who warned about the vulnerability of social media platforms to misinformation and propaganda prior to the 2016 US presidential election. Aviv earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked and consulted in Silicon Valley before becoming a Knight News Innovation Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. He led the development of the Iffy Quotient Platform Health Metric.