Alex Mahadevan

Alex Mahadevan is the director of MediaWise at the Poynter Institute. Since 2019, he's taught digital media literacy to tens of thousands of teens and older adults, created curricula for first-time voters, and trained thousands of journalists across the world in verification, AI and digital tools for investigations. He also co-leads the Empowering Digital Diverse Digital Citizens Lab at Stanford University, which studies media literacy interventions on TikTok and YouTube. Before getting into fact-checking and media literacy, he launched content management systems, newsletters and video series’ as a data reporter and audience editor based in Florida.