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.

Research partnerships

Investigations by other organizations where Cameron or his teams were the named technical or research partner.

Oct 2025

France: TikTok still steering vulnerable children toward depressive and suicidal content

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.

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

Three Shades of Greenwashing

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.

Built on the platform

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.

Quoted

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.

Interviews

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

Online Misinformation: Call It Out

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

The Software We Wrote to Understand Junk News

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.