Chloe Colliver
Boards now treat information integrity as an operating risk, not a communications problem. Coordinated manipulation, hostile narratives and regulator pressure arrive on the same week, and most leadership teams do not have a shared language for any of it. The gap sits between the security function that sees the signals and the executives who have to act on them.
Chloe Colliver helps leaders, regulators and platforms understand how online manipulation works, who is driving it, and what credible intervention looks like, drawing on senior research roles at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and UK regulator Ofcom.
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Why organisations work with Chloe Colliver
- She has run live detection work across the German, European Parliamentary, UK, Swedish and US elections, which means she can speak to election interference and coordinated inauthentic behaviour from operational experience rather than commentary.
- She has sat on both sides of the table, as a lead investigator at ISD naming tactics used against platforms, and in senior online safety policy at Ofcom shaping how UK regulation will actually be enforced.
- Her testimony to the UK Home Affairs Select Committee, the International Grand Committee on Disinformation and the Swedish, Canadian, French, German and New Zealand governments gives boards a direct line into how legislators are thinking about tech regulation.
- She co-authored the ISD reports that set the methodological vocabulary for this field, including Hoodwinked, Spin Cycle and Click Here For Outrage, cited by journalists, regulators and platform policy teams.
- She is fluent on camera, with sustained appearances on CNN, BBC Newsnight, Sky News and Channel 4, which translates into a keynote register that works for mixed executive and technical audiences.
Biography highlights
- Head of Digital Research and Policy at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, leading a global team of analysts on disinformation and online extremism.
- Now in senior online safety policy at Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, building the evidence base behind the Online Safety Act.
- Co-author of ISD reports including Hoodwinked, Spin Cycle, The 101 of Disinformation Detection and Click Here For Outrage.
- Expert witness to the UK Home Affairs Select Committee and the International Grand Committee on Disinformation, and to the Swedish, New Zealand, Canadian, French and German governments.
- Contributor to the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism alongside Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Google.
- BA History, Clare College, Cambridge; MA History, Yale, as a Mellon Fellow.
Biography
Coordinated manipulation online is no longer a fringe concern for communications teams. It is an operating risk that touches elections, public health, brand safety and regulatory exposure all at once. The field that studies it seriously is small, and Chloe Colliver has been at the centre of it for most of the last decade.
At the Institute for Strategic Dialogue she led a global team mapping disinformation, hate speech and extremist content across major platforms. Her team ran live analysis during the German, European Parliamentary, UK, Swedish and US election cycles, and co-authored the research reports that shaped how journalists, regulators and platform policy staff now talk about coordinated inauthentic behaviour, including Hoodwinked, Spin Cycle and Click Here For Outrage.
She has given expert evidence to the UK Home Affairs Select Committee and the International Grand Committee on Disinformation, and advised the Swedish, New Zealand, Canadian, French and German governments on tech regulation. She also contributed to the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, the cross-platform body that includes Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Google.
She now holds a senior online safety role at Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, where she leads work on the evidence base for the Online Safety Act. That shift from platform-level investigator to regulator-side policy lead is what makes her rare on a stage: she has named the tactics, tested the interventions, and now sits inside the body writing the rules.
Key speaking topics
- Disinformation and information integrity
- Online safety regulation and the Online Safety Act
- Election interference and coordinated inauthentic behaviour
- Platform governance and content moderation
- Digital policy and tech regulation
- Extremism and online radicalisation
- Crisis communications in a manipulated information environment
Ideal for
- Boards, CEOs and comms leaders preparing for regulatory, reputational or election-year information risk.
- Chief Risk Officers, General Counsel and Heads of Trust and Safety navigating the Online Safety Act and wider platform regulation.
- Policy, public affairs and government relations teams tracking how UK, EU and G7 legislators are moving on disinformation and online harms.
- Security, intelligence and threat teams integrating platform-level signals into enterprise risk reporting.
Audience outcomes
- A clearer picture of how coordinated disinformation is actually built, distributed and monetised, with named examples from recent election cycles.
- A grounded read on where UK and EU online safety regulation is heading and what it will require from platforms, advertisers and large employers.
- A working vocabulary for discussing information integrity at board level, separating genuine risk from noise.
- A sense of which interventions have been tested and which have not, drawn from ISD research and regulator-side evidence work.