Claire Wardle

Dr Claire Wardle is one of the world’s leading authorities on social media and user generated content, and in particular misinformation and disinformation. She has top tier editorial, policy, and research experience. For the Council of Europe, she wrote the seminal and authoritative paper ‘Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making’. For the European Union, she was a member of the High Level Expert Group on Disinformation. For the UK Parliament, she gave evidence to the DCMS Select Committee inquiry. For the World Health Organization, she advised on how to manage what its Director General called the ‘infodemic’ around Covid-19 and trained public officials from around the world. For the Surgeon General of the United States, she supported the development of the Advisory on Building a Healthy Information Environment. Through First Draft, the non-profit she co-founded and leads, she has convened and supported civil society and media responses to election disinformation in many countries across the world. Dr Wardle did her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world’s top communications departments, and became head of Teaching and Learning the Cardiff School of Journalism, one of the UK’s leading journalism departments. She was Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and has recently joined Brown University to work on a new initiative around global health misinformation.