About Us

Mission 

The widespread adoption of digital media and information technologies has made it exponentially easier and faster to produce, disseminate, and be exposed to false, manipulated, and sometimes hateful content. Still, misinformation is a complex, largely misunderstood phenomenon. The public, the media, and policymakers are in need of reliable, unbiased research on the prevalence, diffusion, and impact of misinformation worldwide.

The HKS Misinformation Review is a new format of peer-reviewed, scholarly publication. We publish high-quality, interdisciplinary research that examines misinformation from different perspectives—from its prevalence and impact to the effectiveness of possible interventions—employing a fast-review process designed to publish articles within one to three months of entering peer review. Our content emphasizes real-world implications and applications, is released under open-access licensing, and is targeted toward a specialized audience of researchers, journalists, technologists, policymakers, educators, and other practitioners working in the information, media, and platform landscape.

Our calls for papers include:

• Disinformation, propaganda, and media manipulation
• Media business models, news quality, and misinformation
• Health and science misinformation
• Hate speech, content moderation, and platform accountability
• International disinformation, security, and warfare
• Online misinformation, offline narratives, and real-life impact

We are grateful for the support of the Rita Allen Foundation, Elaine M. Schuster and the Schuster Media and Technology Endowment Fund, the Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Rapaport Family Foundation, Thomas and Musa Mayer/American Endowment Foundation, and the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP).

ISSN: 2766-1652 (Online)

Disclaimer: The views in the articles published in the HKS Misinformation Review are those of individual authors and do not represent the opinions, policies, or official positions of Harvard University, the Harvard Kennedy School, or the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

Editors

Dr. Vicky Gabriel

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Matthew A. Baum

Co-Editor and Co-Founder

Dr. Irene V. Pasquetto 

Senior Editor and Co-Founder

Dr. Benjamin A. Lyons 

Associate Editor 

Dr. Samantha Bradshaw

Associate Editor 

Dr. Toby Prike 

Associate Editor 

Dr. Andrew Iliadis

Associate Editor

Dr. Magdalena Tarnawska Senel 

Managing Editor 

Costanza Sciubba Caniglia

Special Editor for Commentaries 

Dr. Michelle Gaston

Copy Editor

Editorial Board

Our founding Editorial Board members came from top-ranked research institutes and from a very diverse set of academic disciplines, mirroring the mission of the journal to publish multidisciplinary academic research. The Editorial Board will evolve along with the changing research landscape, as new areas of inquiry arise and needs of the journal’s staff change over time.