Global Misinformation Researcher

As a Geopolitics and Misinformation Researcher at ActiveFence, you will use your internet-fluency, online resourcefulness, broad areas of interest, writing and editing proficiency, research interests, and solution-based thinking, to access difficult-to-come-by open-source data from the deep-web and review global online emerging trends.

You are fluent in English, are a proficient writer and editor, and are comfortable with a fast pace and technical environment. You are interested in geopolitics, world events, misinformation, and finding emerging online harmful trends. You like to work on several topics simultaneously, learn new things fast, and have a keen interest in diving deep into understanding the culture, politics, and specific misinformation trends of different countries.

You will be reviewing and editing daily intelligence briefs and analyzing malicious activities online while focusing on broader geopolitical emerging trends and risk assessment. You’ll be gathering intelligence, coordinating the research and packaging the deliverables, providing analysis of upcoming global events and supporting the management of election war-rooms.

• Analyzing emerging online activity and providing meaningful insights
• Reviewing and editing daily short intelligence briefs of emerging trends
• Producing in-house analysis on emerging geopolitical trends to various stakeholders across the company
• Following industry updates and geopolitical trends
• Monitoring third party websites, forums, messaging app channels and more to uncover malicious activities
• Supporting the management of election war-rooms

Required experience:

• 3-4 years experience in geopolitics analysis/misinformation/election monitoring/trust & safety
• Fluent English
• Strong writing editing skills
• A pro-active and independent thinker and doer
• Customer-oriented
• Capable of dealing with harsh content at times

Additional wants:

• Project management experience
• Additional language capabilities
• Tons of curiosity
• A methodological approach to the art of web intelligence
• Intelligence Background – an advantage.
• Journalism background - an advantage

About ActiveFence:

ActiveFence is the leading tool stack for Trust & Safety teams, worldwide. By relying on ActiveFence’s end-to-end solution, Trust & Safety teams – of all sizes – can keep users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety, disinformation, fraud, hate speech, terror, nudity, and more.

Using cutting-edge AI and a team of world-class subject-matter experts to continuously collect, analyze, and contextualize data, ActiveFence ensures that in an ever-changing world, customers are always two steps ahead of bad actors. As a result, Trust & Safety teams can be proactive and provide maximum protection to users across a multitude of abuse areas, in 70+ languages.

Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors such as CRV and Norwest, ActiveFence has raised $100M to date; employs 300 people worldwide, and has contributed to the online safety of billions of users across the globe.