Yasha Levine (February 23, 1981)[6][7] is a Russian-American investigative journalist, author and reporter.

Levine, who was born in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, was raised in San Francisco, California.

[12][13] He has written the book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet which was published in 2018.

[15] Levine's other books include A Journey Through California's Oligarch Valley, The Koch Brothers: A Short History, and The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell.

[17] He has also written for Wired, The Nation, Slate, TIME, The New York Observer, The Baffler and more.