Esli Chan is a senior research fellow at the Media Ecosystem Observatory and a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. Her research interest focuses on technology and media, extremism and right-wing politics, and gender politics. Her work on social media platform design, online extremism, and public policy response to gender-based violence, have been published in Violence Against Women, International Studies Review, and other academic journals and news media. She has previously worked for the Government of Canada in the field of national security and foreign relations. She holds a MSc in Risk Analysis from King’s College London.