Alex is a senior research associate in the Digital Society Initiative leading efforts on digital public infrastructure, open source sustainability and articulating, measuring and advocating for an internet compatible with democracy.

He was until June 2022 interim research director at Demos, and director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, during which time he authored more than a dozen major reports on digital election integrity, content moderation practices, digital regulation and the intersection between tech and politics.

He led the Good Web Project and is a fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).