Professor Takis Metaxas is Professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College and the Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs. He is also an affiliate of the Center for Computation and Society at Harvard and the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs at Oxford. His research interests are in Social Computing and Web Science, connecting Computer Science to Social Sciences (esp. Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, Economics) and Natural Sciences (esp. Biology and Neuroscience). In particular, he is interested in how the Web is changing the way we think, decide, and act as individuals and members of social communities. His work has been recognized with NSF grants and four Best Paper Awards. He has been revealing online propaganda since 2005 when there was no term for “fake news,” and it was not proper to criticize Google. He was also the first to point out that one cannot predict elections using social media because one can compromise elections with social media. With his Wellesley Colleagues, they discovered the first online political bots and have pointed out that the technique that was used to propagate fake news and compromise the 2016 presidential elections was identical to the technique that compromised the 2010 MA Senatorial elections.