Jordan is a digital investigator based in Germany. He has a Master’s degree in Multimedia Journalism and has previously written, produced audio and video, and managed social media for media outlets worldwide. Jordan’s research focuses on mis-/disinformation, online extremism and conspiracists. Outside of that, he can be found putting together and testing research tools, building things from parts he found on the internet and tending to his houseplant jungle.
Over the summer, Gabby Petito set off with her fiancé with a plan to travel around national parks across the western United States. Around the beginning of September, her social media posts stopped. By the 11th, her family reported her missing.
“You click report and it's like sending out a prayer, you hope for the best,” Nathalie Van Raemdonck, a doctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, tells me.
When Louise Hampton posted a video appearing to suggest the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t exist, she was mostly unknown to the world. She worked for Care UK, a major NHS service provider that operates the 111 call center service.