Gabriel Rinaldi is team lead at Süddeutsche Zeitung Dossier Digitalwende, covering the digital dimension of security and politics. He began his career in political journalism as a reporter at POLITICO’s Berlin office and worked for the Washington Post, SPIEGEL, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Tagesspiegel, and taz, among others. Gabriel studied politics, sociology, and economics in Berlin, London, and Milan and was also trained at the ifp School of Journalism in Munich. He has been running training courses for Lie Detectors for pupils and teachers in German, English, and Italian since 2023. Photo credits: Friedrich Bungert.