Berinsky is the Mitsui Professor of Political Science at MIT and serves as director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL). He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a BA in Government from Wesleyan University (CT). Berinsky is the author of “Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It” (Princeton University Press, 2023), “In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq” (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and “Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America“  (Princeton University Press, 2004).  He has published articles in many journals and is currently the co-editor of the Chicago Studies in American Politics book series at the University of Chicago Press. 

At RSF, he is working on a project examining interventions to stop or slow the spread of political misinformation. Berinsky is testing the efficacy of existing approaches to combating the spread of misinformation, such as having unlikely sources correct falsehoods. He is also examining and developing new interactive and scalable interventions to slow the spread of misinformation by leveraging advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, he is investigating the effectiveness of combining multiple interventions to evaluate whether they have greater success when bundled together. For example, combining “accuracy prompts,” which remind individuals to consider whether information is accurate before sharing it online bundled with trainings to teach people how to identify manipulation techniques.