Ethan Porter PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, where he also has a courtesy appointment in the Political Science Department. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2016. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Communication and other journals. He has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and other popular publications, and has received grant support from the National Science Foundation and the Omidyar Network.

False Alarm: The Truth About Political Mistruths in the Trump Era, a book co-authored with Thomas J. Wood, was published in 2019 by Cambridge University Press. His second book, The Consumer Citizen, is under contract with Oxford University Press.