Press mentions
Where the work shows up in other people’s reporting — as a research partnership, as the data behind an investigation, or as a quote. For things he wrote himself, see writing.
Investigations by other organizations where Cameron or his teams were the named technical or research partner.
Oct 2025
Amnesty International
ATI named as technical research partner. Automated test accounts representing 13-year-olds in France found TikTok's recommender more than doubled the share of sad or depressive content recommended. Amnesty filed a formal complaint with French regulator Arcom under the EU Digital Services Act on the strength of this research, and it supports an eleven-family class action against TikTok.
Sep 2025
Amnesty International
Index EUR 37/0098/2025. ATI as technical research partner.
Nov 2023
Amnesty International
Technical research partner. 30+ automated accounts representing 13-year-olds in Kenya and the USA, plus manual accounts in Kenya, the Philippines, and the USA.
Oct 2022
Fossil Fuel Companies Are 'Talking Green but Acting Dirty,' Harvard Researchers Find
Harvard
Coverage of the greenwashing study, crediting the ATI collaboration.
Sep 2022
Greenpeace Netherlands
Commissioned pilot study on digital climate deception with Dr. Geoffrey Supran, examining how European fossil fuel, car, and airline companies market themselves as environmentally friendly.
Feb 2022
Stanford Internet Observatory, Virality Project
Newsroom investigations reported out of Junkipedia data.
Dec 2022
Misleading Ads Fueled Rapid Growth of Online Mental Health Companiesunverified
The Wall Street Journal
WSJ analysis of 2,100+ pharma ads on Facebook and Instagram. ATI's role in supplying the data is not yet confirmed.
Nov 2020
The State of Election Day 2020
ProPublica Electionland
Junkipedia cited as a collection source in a seven-byline ProPublica piece.
Oct 2020
Inside the campaign to 'pizzagate' Hunter Biden
NBC News
By Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny. A Junkipedia list was the basis for the reporting.
Commentary in others’ reporting.
Mar 2022
TikTok's Black Box Obscures Its Role in Russia's War
Wired
On his own TikTok bot research and being blocked by the platform for doing it: the research is fraught, but critical.
Oct 2021
YouTube, TikTok and Snap Go To Congress Tuesdayunverified
NPR
On TikTok's consumption rate and exposure risk. Outlet attribution to confirm.
Sep 2021
Front-page reporting on the dismantling of CrowdTangle
The New York Times
By Ryan Mac and Sheera Frenkel. Identified as a misinformation researcher at the National Conference on Citizenship. Facebook winding down the main tool researchers used to study the platform — the start of an argument that runs through the Mozilla study and the KGI Better Access framework.
Aug 2021
How The Daily Wire Uses Facebook's Targeted Advertising to Build Its Brand
The Markup
By Corin Faife. On ad targeting and radicalization.
Aug 2021
Vaccine Misinformation Is Spreading Among Kids, Too, Especially On Social Mediaunverified
NPR
On peer influence dynamics on TikTok. Outlet attribution to confirm.
Jan 2021
The strange, violent death of Parler
Wired UK
By James Temperton. On Parler's function as amplification and radicalization rather than organization, based on continuous ATI monitoring.
Oct 2020
The most problematic 'fake news' are not complete falsehoods
Ethnic Media Services
The core framing: content does not have to be false to be damaging.
Oct 2020
Philippine Daily Inquirer US
From his presentation "Understanding and Identifying Problematic Content."
2019
Nieman Reports
On interdisciplinary team design. Confirms he led the Information Disorder Lab, which concluded in April 2019.
Jun 2026
What is civic health, and how can we cultivate it?
Lexington Observer
Ahead of the Lexington Lyceum panel he moderated.
May 2022
A Conversation with Cameron Hickey
Bright Initiative
On public web data for algorithmic transparency.
Jul 2021
Civic Genius
A substantive Junkipedia explainer covering closed networks — Discord, WhatsApp, WeChat — and platform factcheckers acting on their own editorial whims.
Jun 2021
Tools to combat misinformation with Cameron Hickey
The Great Battlefield
Career-length interview.
2018
Miles To Go (Miles O'Brien)
Full-transcript interview on building NewsTracker inside a newsroom, and the only public source for the early biography — photography and economics at Bard, self-taught programming in the late 1990s, and a dotcom job before turning 21.
2018
PBS NewsHour
Confirms the junk news series ran four parts with Cameron as series producer, and that he built the software that identified clickbait publisher Cyrus Massoumi.