Demystifying Media: First Draft’s Claire Wardle on tackling misinformation + information disorder

“If I was trying to push conspiracies or rumors or hoaxes, I’m going to go where the industry is most vulnerable, and that happens to be small newsrooms.”

Dr. Claire Wardle, is a co-founder and the Executive Chair of First Draft, the world’s foremost nonprofit focused on research and practice to address mis- and disinformation.

First Draft is a global non-profit which supports journalists, academics, and technologists working to address challenges relating to trust and truth in the digital age. Much of this is focused on tackling information disorder around elections, and First Draft has led coalitions on this topic in the US, France, UK, Germany, Brazil, and Nigeria.

In 2017 Dr. Wardle co-authored a report for the Council of Europe entitled, Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policymaking.