Jesselyn Cook is an award-winning investigative reporter and nonfiction author who has written extensively about online conspiracy theories and their offline harms. Her new book for Penguin Random House, The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family, won a Lukas Prize. Prior to covering the tech beat at NBC News, she was a senior reporter on HuffPost’s national enterprise desk. She holds a master’s degree in journalism and international relations from New York University and is a 2025 Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
