Nathalie Maréchal is the Policy Director at Ranking Digital Rights and an internationally recognized expert on digital rights, corporate governance and corporate accountability. In 2020, Nathalie was the lead author of RDR’s “It’s the Business Model” report series, which builds on her 2018 Motherboard op-ed, “Targeted Advertising is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World,” to argue that disinformation, hate speech, and other “information harms” linked to social media platforms are rooted in the surveillance capitalism business model. She has testified in front of the US House of Representatives and the US International Trade Commission. She holds a PhD in communication from the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California, and lives in Washington, DC.