Anna Mierzyńska

Social Media Analyst and Treiner. Specialist in information threat analysis, especially Russian disinformation and online manipulation. Author of the book "The Destructive Effect. How disinformation affects our lives" (Warsaw 2022). Author of the chapter "When citizens distrust authority. The popularity of conspiracy theories as a sign of state crisis" in the book "Beyond the Flat Earth. Conspiracy Theories and European Liberals", European Liberal Forum (2021) and the guide "Disinformation. How to protect yourself from it" (Orange Foundation, Warsaw, 2022). Author of a report on disinformation in the crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border (2024), for the government Commission for the Investigation of Russian and Belarusian Influence in the Years 2004–2024.

Member of the Programme Council of the Orange Foundation. Regular contributor to the OKO.press portal. Author of numerous articles on online disinformation, Russian influence in Poland and right-wing extremism in Poland. 

Initiator of the project “Countering disinformation in Poland - systemic recommendations”, which was implemented by the Security Forum Foundation in 2023 with the cooperation of almost 40 experts working on disinformation in Poland.

During the 2023 election campaign in Poland, she implemented the international monitoring project "The Polish Watch" together with the Atlantic Council think tanks DFR Lab and Allianze4Europe. In 2019 and 2021, she worked with the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue on an internet monitoring project during the European Parliament campaign.

As a trainer, she has conducted dozens of training sessions for adults and young people on how to identify and counter misinformation.