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Mark Scott

Senior Resident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab’s Democracy + Tech Initiative

Mark Scott is senior resident fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab’s (DFRLab) Democracy + Tech Initiative within the Atlantic Council Technology Programs. In this role, he is engaged in expanding the Initiative’s ongoing work around comparative digital policy, regulation, and governance, as well as efforts linked to the European Union’s Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act. He currently sits on the international advisory board of RegulAite, a project at the University of Amsterdam dedicated to artificial intelligence policymaking. He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Digital Governance at the Hertie School in Berlin.

Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Scott was the chief technology correspondent for Politico. Previously, Scott spent almost a decade as a correspondent for the New York Times, where he covered the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and the rise of Silicon Valley as a global political power. He also worked as a foreign correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek, with a focus on green technology, macroeconomics, and European politics. Scott was also previously a visiting fellow at Brown University’s Information Futures Lab, where he studied how the European Union’s social media rules should be applied to leading digital platforms.

Scott holds a MA in international relations and Spanish from the University of St. Andrews, and an MSc in environmental technology from Imperial College London. He is based in Europe.

The Latest From Mark Scott

Better Access: Data for the Common Good

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Better Access: Data for the Common Good

Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard. As critical conversations unfold publicly on digital platforms, the ability to study them at scale has steadily diminished. KGI’s latest report authored by a distinguished group of leaders from research, civil society, and journalism offers a roadmap for expanding access to high-influence public platform data – the narrow slice of public platform data that has the greatest impact on civic life due to its reach, source, or role in shaping what people see online.

Alex Abdo, Angie Drobnic Holan, Brandon Silverman, Cameron Hickey, Daniel Arnaudo, Jeremy Merrill, Jo Lukito, Justin Hendrix, Kaitlyn Dowling, Laura Edelson, Leticia Bode, LK Seiling, Mark Scott, Nadine Farid Johnson, Naomi Shiffman, Nathaniel Persily, Peter Chapman, Rachelle Faust, Rebekah Tromble, Tiago Ventura

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