Christian Schwieter, M.Sc.

Christian Schwieter is a PhD candidate at the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, where he investigates the impact of European platform governance efforts on far-right activity online. He is also an editor of the open-access Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR) and a Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Previously, he was a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute and served as Specialist Adviser on Disinformation Matters to the DCMS Select Committee at the UK House of Commons. He has advised, among others, the German Ministry of Justice, the European Parliament, and the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism on issues related to extremism, disinformation, and platform regulation. He holds an MSc (Dist) in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford and a BA (Hons) in World Politics from Leiden University.