Rebekah Tromble

Dr. Rebekah Tromble is Director of the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics and Associate Professor in the School of Media & Public Affairs at George Washington University. Her research focuses on political communication, digital research methodology, and research ethics, with particular interests in political discourse on social media, as well as the impacts of toxic and abusive content. Dr. Tromble is a leading expert on the topic of digital platform data access for research. As a member of the Advisory Council of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), she chaired the multi-stakeholder working group that drafted a Code of Conduct on Platform-to-Researcher Data Access under the GDPR, and she currently chairs a second multi-stakeholder working group that is setting up an independent intermediary body that will help facilitate researcher data access under the EU Digital Services Act, Code of Practice on Disinformation, and other data access initiatives. She also led a pilot project involving multiple researchers, platforms, and regulators to test implementation of the data access provisions under the DSA. Dr. Tromble is co-founder of, and member of the Executive Committee directing, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research.