Sharon Kann is a research director at Media Matters, where she oversees a team dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting misinformation in the media and online. She previously served as director of the Abortion Rights & Reproductive Health Program at Media Matters, where she was integral in both dispeling abortion related myths and misinformation in the media and online, as well as call out bad actors working to vilify access to abortion care and reproductive health services. She also tracked/identifed targeted harassment of abortion providers, patients, and clinics/funds through online ecosystems. She has a master’s degree in communication from Wake Forest University and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Iowa.