Whitney Phillips, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, published “The Toxins We Carry” in the Columbia Journalism Review. She co-authored an opinion editorial in The Washington Post titled “Trump has started to lose control of his own memes” and was quoted in the Vox story “Facebook’s political ads policy is predictably turning out to be a disaster.” Her research was referenced in Lawfare’s “How the Schiff Report Deals with Disinformation.”