Claire Wardle | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Claire Wardle

Claire Wardle is strategy and research director of First Draft News and a research fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Forget deepfakes: Misinformation is showing up in our most personal online spaces

“Maybe I’m being too technologically determinist. Maybe this type of content won’t have a disproportionate impact. But the problem is I don’t think we have the ten years we need in order to wait for the longitudinal studies to be carried out.”

Disinformation gets worse

“We’re in a terrifying moment where our global information streams are polluted with a dizzying array of mis- and disinformation. Politicians are targeting the professional media as a way of building direct connections with citizens through social media.”

Verification takes center stage

“The misinformation ecosystem is much more nuanced than simply fake news.”