Samuel Woolley

Samuel Woolley is an American media studies scholar and expert on computational propaganda and misinformation. Woolley was a founder of the Computational Propaganda Research Project at the University of Oxford in 2013, and the Institute for the Future's Digital Intelligence Lab. As of 2025, he is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh in their Department of Communication, and holds the University's William S. Dietrich II Endowed Chair In Disinformation Studies.