US Misinformation Analyst (English)

About us

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 behaviour, 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.
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Requirements

As a US Misinformation Analyst at ActiveFence, you use your internet fluency, online resourcefulness, broad areas of interest, writing proficiency, investigative mindset, and hacker-like thinking to find rapidly emerging online narratives, social unrest, and misinformation spreading across US politics. You are a proficient writer and are comfortable with a fast-paced and technical environment. You are an expert in US information ecosystems, politics, extremism, misinformation, and emerging trends. You like to work on several topics simultaneously and learn new things fast. You will be analyzing and monitoring malicious activities online while getting to their sources and distribution methods. You'll be writing, editing, and reviewing intelligence briefs, and doing research into new sources and trends. You will be the first to know about emerging political figures, narratives, and groups.

• Analyzing and monitoring online activity in US and providing meaningful insights.
• Researching online platforms to discover new sources and important events
• Monitoring third party websites, forums, messaging app channels and more to uncover malicious activities.
• Writing intelligence briefs.

Skills and qualifications

• OSINT experience
• Intelligence background - an advantage
• Journalism background - an advantage
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Native in English
• Capable of dealing with harsh content at times
• Expert in geopolitics and in US politics/extremism/culture.