Imran Ahmed is the founding CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit NGO based in Washington DC and London which seeks to disrupt the architecture of online hate and misinformation.He is a recognized authority on the social and psychological dynamics of social media, as well as what goes wrong in those spaces-including trolling, identity-based hate, misinformation, conspiracy theories, modern extremism and fake news.Imran regularly features in the news media and documentary films as an expert in online malignant behavior. He also advises government officials in the US, UK, Germany and New Zealand, and has addressed NATO.