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
My network of professionals working on countering hate in all its forms grew exponentially after attending Eradicate Hate in 2021. The myriad voices represented at Eradicate Hate, from big tech companies to academic researchers to those with lived experience, reinforced to me the importance of cross-cutting and collaborative approaches to counter hate and its devastating impacts on society. I’ve been fortunate to sustain and build those networks with many of those I met at Eradicate Hate in 2021.
