Megan Boler is Full Professor at the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Manuel Castells Oliván is a Spanish sociologist especially associated with research on the information society, communication and globalization. In January 2020, he was appointed Minister of Universities in the Sánchez II Government of Spain. He is the professor at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Dr. Metzger is a professor at the Department of Communication, UC Santa Barbara. Her research seeks to understand the individual and societal effects of using information and communication technology by studying the forces that shape people’s trust of and perceptions about online information. More specifically, her work employs quantitative social science methods to study the…

Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University. He specializes in the impact of social media on politics.

Dr. Lahsen is an Associate Professor at Linköping University in Sweden, and Senior Associate (“Titular”) Researcher in the Earth System Science Center of the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil. She is cultural anthropologist and science and technology studies scholar by training, and use mixed methods to study knowledge politics and socio-cultural dynamics…

She is an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego. Her research identifies why young and older adults fall for fake news and misinformation. ​She studies memory and judgment across the lifespan, with a specific focus on cognitive “shortcuts” people use to evaluate truth.

Nina Jankowicz studies the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of How To Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict (Bloomsbury/IBTauris). Ms. Jankowicz has advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship.

Peter Van Aelst is a research professor at the department of political science at the University of Antwerp and a founding member of the research group ‘Media, Movements and Politics’ (M2P). His research focuses on political communication.

Technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory | Misinformation/Disinformation Expert

Richard Stengel is the longest serving Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in American history (2013-16). While at the State Department, he helped modernize State’s communications and led the department’s counter-disinformation efforts. He helped create and oversee the Global Engagement Center.