Michael Edison Hayden
Senior Investigative Reporter/Spokesperson, Intelligence Project, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
2022
Michael Edison Hayden serves as a Senior Investigative Reporter and Spokesperson for Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), where he publishes stories about online radicalization, social media influencers and authoritarianism. His work as an investigative reporter has also been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, National Geographic, and Los Angeles Times, among other publications. He is a three-time grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis reporting and he authored Columbia University’s guide to OSINT.
At the Summit
It is a tragic reality that hateful ideology has found fertile ground online and offline, with consequences affecting not only Americans but people around the world. We cannot stand idle in the face of bias, bigotry, and extremism. Together, at the Eradicate Hate Summit and beyond, the collective will of individuals and organizations is needed to galvanize all people of good will to protect and defend our communities.
