Danielle Lee Tomson

Tomson is the Research Manager for the CIP’s election rumor research team. She received her doctoral degree in Communication from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her dissertation is an ethnography of right-wing social media influencers. Her research focuses on the ways political actors use the performance, storytelling and entertainment conventions of popular culture to achieve their goals. Tomson’s expertise touches on themes of public trust in institutions, alternative epistemologies, propaganda, political subcultures, platform politics, and nationalist-populism. Her writing and commentary have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, POLITICO, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, CNBC, Fox News, Brookings, Mother Jones and more.