Recent Interviews & Appearances
Quoted in ...
- The Associated Press: "When it comes to reporting on mass killings, some in Europe take a different approach from Americans," June 12, 2025.
- Daily Kos: "Sweet Myths that Hide Bitter Realities: Unpacking Hypernormalization," June 8, 2025.
- CT Insider: "The disinformation motivation," Oct. 23, 2024.
- Connecticut Post: "Experts: Voters can expect 'avalanche of disinformation,'" Oct. 22, 2024.
- CT Insider: "Connecticut Briefing: The post-truth world," Oct. 15, 2024.
- NBC-CT: "How can you guard against online misinformation? UConn professor offers tips," July 16, 2024.
- Littleton Independent/Colorado Community Media: "An impact America ‘can’t underestimate’: How news coverage of the Columbine school shooting created myths and martyrs." April 18, 2024.
- Sun Journal: "Lies about Lewiston shooting pushed by online skeptics: For some, mass murder is a 'false flag' operation designed to seize guns." Also ran in Yahoo News, AOL Nov. 10, 2023.
- The SPJ News: "How to cover a mass shooting: Weighing reporters’ mental health during and after." Sept. 30, 2023.
- Hartford Courant: "Amid Threats of Violence, Online Harassment, CT Elected Officials Look for Solutions," May 6, 2023.
- Her Campus: "Who Really Won in the Fox-Dominion Settlement," May 5, 2023.
- JAWS: "Inspired By: Amanda Crawford," March 30, 2023
- CT Insider: "Alex Jones' order to pay $50M to Sandy Hook parents may not quell misinformation, experts say," Aug. 13, 2022
- The Spokesman-Review: "Shawn Vestal: The poisonous fruit of InfoWars has seeped into the nation one post at a time." Oct. 16, 2022.
- Independent: "Why Alex Jones is facing trial again over his Sandy Hook ‘hoax’ lies – and what it could cost him," Oct. 3, 2022. Also on Yahoo News.
- NewsTimes: "On Sandy Hook, Alex Jones says 'they' are coming for the First, Second Amendments. Why he's wrong," Oct. 1, 2022
- USA Today: "A new trial against Alex Jones is expected to examine the finances of his misinformation empire," Sept. 8, 2022
- CT Insider: “Connecticut Residents Organizing to Support ‘People’s Convoy’ of Truckers Headed to D.C.,” Feb. 28, 2022.
- The Republican-American: "The Fourth Estate’s future: The problem everyone is trying to solve." July 3, 2021.
Radio & Podcasts
- Connecticut Public Radio/WNPR: Where We Live: "A look at the local news landscape and how to spot pink slime journalism," March 13, 2023.
- Connecticut Public Radio/WNPR: Where We Live: "From check marks to layoffs: a former Twitter Employee Shares Their Experience," Nov. 18, 2022
- The Crux podcast, Episode 81: "How the media adds to 'the crescendo of conspiracy theories' with Amanda Crawford," Sept. 11, 2022.
- Counterpoint public affairs radio show, WPKN-Bridgeport: "Dissecting the GOP’s ‘Big Lie’ and Other Toxic Conspiracy Theories." Jan. 10, 2022