Matthias J. Becker, PhD, is an AddressHate Senior Research Scholar at New York University’s Center for the Study of Antisemitism. A cognitive linguist and discourse analyst by training (PhD, TU Berlin), he studies the linguistic, multimodal, and discursive mechanisms of antisemitism and digital hate, with particular attention to implicit forms of hostility that become normalized in mainstream political and online discourse. He founded and led Decoding Antisemitism (2020–2025), the largest study of online antisemitism conducted in Europe, spanning TU Berlin, King’s College London, and HTW Berlin and producing more than 300,000 annotated comments as well as the Decoding Antisemitism Lexicon (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), downloaded nearly half a million times since publication.

At NYU, he directs its successor project, Decoding Hate, which extends this framework across four hate ideologies — antisemitism, anti-Black racism, anti-Asian racism, and misogyny — and carries its findings into knowledge transfer with legal and educational partners.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the Digital Hate Review (https://digitalhatereview.com) and has advised the U.S. State Department, the European Commission, and governmental institutions in Germany and the United Kingdom.