Anika Collier Navaroli

Anika Collier Navaroli is an American researcher, writer, and lawyer who is director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security and an assistant professor at the Columbia Journalism School. Previously she was on the safety policy team at Twitter and came forward as a whistleblower to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack about platform moderation at Twitter during the presidency of Donald Trump.

Early life and education Navaroli grew up in Florida. She earned a Bachelor of Science in journalism from the University of Florida, then earned a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2012. She earned a Master of Science in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she wrote a thesis on constitutional law and social media titled "The Revolution Will Be Tweeted". She said that she and her team advocated for stricter and more precise policies around dog whistles, but that they were rebuffed by executives who were pleased that Trump favored Twitter over other social media networks. On the night of January 5, 2021, the eve of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Navaroli participated in a team meeting where they discussed their concerns over what might happen the following day, after seeing calls to violence. After the meeting, Navaroli wrote to a colleague: "When people are shooting each other in the streets tomorrow, I'm going to try and rest in the knowledge that we tried." Navaroli left Twitter in March 2021 and began working for Twitch.

Navaroli later said she believed the hearings were a "real missed opportunity", and that the committee had not taken sufficient action with respect to social media companies' role in the January 6 attack. "[Social media companies'] role or their responsibility within that day and the events of that day, and the violence that occurred, has not been fully laid out" in the committee's report, she said. In August 2023, she joined the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as a senior fellow.

Recognition Navaroli was awarded the Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize and the Columbia Journalism School's Alumni Courage Award for her Congressional testimony.

Personal life , Navaroli was living in California. She is queer.