Ahmed Al-Rawi is an Assistant Professor of Social Media, News, and Public Communication at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and Director of the Disinformation Project, empirically examining fake news discourses in Canada on social media and mainstream media. He is the author of several books and over fifty peer reviewed book chapters and articles published in journals including Information, Communication & Society, Online Information Review, Social Science Computer Review, and International Journal of Communication.