Information Operations Researcher
About The Position
ActiveFence’s Information Operations team is working to detect and analyze disinformation campaigns for customers who want to protect their users and reputation from threat actors who actively seek to spread fake news, misinformation, and propaganda for political influence or other motives.
We are looking for a researcher who will work with our OSINT analysts to analyze influence operation leads in order to understand extent, scope, motivations and origins of disinformation campaigns. Specifically, researchers will be responsible for:
- Telling the ‘story’ of the networks and influence operations we find in a compelling way
- Conducting geopolitical analysis to understand how influence operations align with threat actor interests and their target audience
- Conducting narrative analyses to better understand the goals of the campaign creators
- Conducting other non-technical research associated with the campaigns
- Pressure testing analyst findings and working together to further the OSINT work around a particular network
- Creating customer-facing presentations/ whitepapers/ documents and presenting findings regularly
Requirements
- Excellent research, storytelling and writing abilities
- Experience in analyzing disinformation campaigns - huge plus
- Political science background, broad geopolitical understanding - huge plus
- Native English speaker - huge plus
- Hands on experience in intelligence analysis - plus
- Organized, motivated, great at cross-functional work
- Amazing attention to detail
- Able to work in fast paced, dynamic environment
- Experience in any of the following is a huge plus: OSINT, cyber, malware, mobile, online marketing, consulting, investigative journalism, experience at global enterprises