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Viktoria Gabriel is the Editor-in-Chief at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. She holds degrees in English, Social Psychology, and German Studies, and is a former radio journalist and lecturer in German. Her research focuses on mass media, immigration, and propaganda.

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Matthew A. Baum (Ph.D., UC San Diego) is the Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Department of Government. His research focuses on the domestic politics of international conflict and cooperation, the role of the mass media and public opinion in contemporary American politics, the interaction of media and electoral institutions, fake news and misinformation, and the relationship between partisan media and polarization.

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Irene Pasquetto is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. Previously, she was a faculty member at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, where she taught ethics of information technologies and digital curation. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She co-founded the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review in 2019.

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Francesca Tripodi  (PhD sociology) is an Associate Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science and a Principal Investigator at the Center for Information Technology and Public Life. She has twice testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on search engine manipulation and received an NSF Accelerator Award for her work on information integrity. In addition to her work on search, her research examines how race and gender affect perceived notability on Wikipedia. Dr. Tripodi’s research has been featured in NPR, The New York Times, and Wired and in 2023, she received the Award for Impact and Excellence from the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.

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Ben Lyons is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Utah studying the intersection of media, politics, and public understanding of science. His research centers on misinformation and misperceptions using surveys, experiments, web-tracking data, and spatial data. Specific topics of interest include epistemic overconfidence, antipathy for experts, age and susceptibility to misinformation, and applied strategies to address misperceptions.

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Dr. Samantha Bradshaw is the Director of the Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology at American University and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Policy & Global Security. Her research examines issues around emerging technology, democracy, and security, including disinformation and foreign influence operations. Dr. Bradshaw obtained her D.Phil. from Oxford University in 2020 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University.

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Toby Prike is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide. His research primarily focuses on misinformation, with an emphasis on strategies that can be used to try and reduce the influence and impact of misinformation. His research also focuses on non-evidence-based beliefs more broadly, such as conspiracy theories, paranormal beliefs, and science denialism, and he maintains a broader set of research interests across the domains of judgment, decision making, memory, reasoning, cognitive bias, and migration.

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Magdalena Tarnawska Senel (Ph.D., UC Irvine) is the Managing Editor at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. She is a published author, scholar, and educator. For the past 25 years, she has taught and conducted research in the fields of German, cultural, and gender studies; history of medical education and social history; language teaching and social justice education; as well as intersections of politics, popular culture, and migration in Europe.

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Costanza Sciubba is the Special Editor for Commentaries at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. She is an alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School (MPA) and holds degrees in public policy, international relations, and philosophy. She is a journalist and worked at the United Nations and on the UN Security Council. She now works on disinformation operations and political manipulation, and is the Director of Communications of data.org.