Jessikka Aro

Jessikka Aro is an award-winning investigative reporter with Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, specializing in Russia, extremism, and information warfare. Due to her investigations of pro-Kremlin social media trolls and their influence on public debates outside Russia's borders, she became the target of an international propaganda and hate speech campaign. In 2019, the US State Department awarded her the International Women of Courage Award, but the award was mysteriously rescinded by the...See more

Jessikka Aro is an award-winning investigative reporter with Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, specializing in Russia, extremism, and information warfare. Due to her investigations of pro-Kremlin social media trolls and their influence on public debates outside Russia's borders, she became the target of an international propaganda and hate speech campaign. In 2019, the US State Department awarded her the International Women of Courage Award, but the award was mysteriously rescinded by the Trump administration, allegedly due to her social media criticism of President Trump. See less