# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rebecca-mackinnon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:58:41.124Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rebecca-mackinnon"
name: "Rebecca MacKinnon"
slug: "rebecca-mackinnon"
description: "Rebecca MacKinnon is an American author, researcher, and Internet freedom advocate, and the co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo. She is on the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative the founding director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, and is the Vice President for Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation."
tagline: "American activist and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rebecca_MacKinnon_(WMEU_2023_photoshoot).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1969-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.68322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 95
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/rmack"
    handle:    "rmack"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmackinnon/"
    handle:    "rmackinnon"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Qp7BHEOKmKfS7Ooa0VYnQ"
    handle:    "@rebeccamackinnon"
    followers: 95
sources:
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    title: "麦康瑞"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريبكا ماكينون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ريبكا ماكينون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_MacKinnon"
    title: "Rebecca MacKinnon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_MacKinnon"
    title: "Rebecca MacKinnon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_MacKinnon"
    title: "Rebecca MacKinnon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_MacKinnon"
    title: "Rebecca MacKinnon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%A7%D7%94_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "רבקה מקינון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_MacKinnon"
    title: "Rebecca MacKinnon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%99%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%8E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "レベッカ・マッキノン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EB%B2%A0%EC%B9%B4_%EB%A9%95%ED%82%A4%EB%84%8C"
    title: "레베카 멕키넌"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_MacKinnon"
    title: "Rebecca MacKinnon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2915379"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump