Claire Wardle is co-founder and co-director of the Information Futures Lab and Professor of the Practice at the Brown School of Public Health. She is a leader in misinformation and user-generated content, co-authoring the foundational report, Information Disorder: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policy for the Council of Europe. In 2015, Claire co-founded the non-profit First Draft, a pioneer in innovation, research, and practice in the field of misinformation.
Over the past decade, she has developed an organization-wide training program for the BBC on eyewitness media, verification, and misinformation, led social media policy at UNHCR, been a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and been the Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.