Dr Pekka Kallioniemi is an expert on social media and disinformation, who has worked as an independent consultant and a postdoctoral researcher on human-technology interaction at Tampere University (Finland). In addition to his academic interest in state-of-the-art technologies, he has also studied Russian online information operations and disinformation. In his current research, he combines these topics, focusing on how online information operations and disinformation may change in the future with the adoption of technologies such as ChatGPT, deep fakes, and generative AI.
Dr Kallioniemi has published the popular Vatnik Soup series since October 2022 and has regularly commented to national and international media on these issues.
Since January 2023, he has also been a columnist for the British newspaper Byline Times. Dr Kallioniemi‘s work has been covered in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Die Welt.