ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Claire Wardle currently leads the strategic direction and research for First Draft. In 2017 she co-authored the seminal report — Information Disorder: An interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policy for the Council of Europe1. Previous to that she was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, the Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, head of social media for the United Nations Refugee Agency. She was also the project lead for the BBC Academy in 2009, where she designed a comprehensive training program for social media verification for BBC News, that was rolled out across the organization. She holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania. Introduction This work is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. 5