Claire Wardle is the executive director of First Draft, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting misinformation around the globe and to educate journalists about reporting in an age of information disorder. Previously, she was a research fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.
Over the past few days in the U.K., at least three cellphone masts have been set on fire, and telecoms engineers trying to keep the network stable have faced attacks and harassment. The reason: Some people … Read more
