Lorna McGregor is a Professor of International Human Rights Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. Lorna's current research focuses on big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights. She is the PI and Director of the multidisciplinary ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and Technology (HRBDT) project. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, the ESRC and the Nuffield Foundation. Lorna is a Co-Chair of the International Law Association's Study Group on Individual Responsibility in International Law and a Contributing Editor of EJIL Talk!. She has held positions as a Commissioner of the British Equality and Human Rights Commission (2015 - 2019) and as a trustee of the AIRE Centre. Prior to becoming an academic, Lorna held positions at REDRESS, the International Bar Association, and the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Sri Lanka.

Sam Dubberley is the manager of the Digital Verification Corps in the Crisis Response Team at Amnesty International and research consultant for the Human Rights and Big Data Project at the University of Essex. As a fellow of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, Sam co-authored a global study exploring the use of user-generated content in TV and online news output. He has published further research into the impact of UGC and vicarious trauma with Eyewitness Media Hub and First Draft. He serves on the advisory board of First Draft and the Syrian Archive and is the co-editor of the forthcoming book Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability.

Jason is a research scientist at Mozilla. His current projects include bringing greater transparency to online advertising and content recommendation algorithms. More generally, his research focuses on how people work with and trust intelligent computing systems "artificial intelligence").

Nandini Jammi is founding organizer at Sleeping Giants, the social media campaign making bigotry and sexism less profitable. Through her work, she has been named by Business Insider as one of 23 industry leaders “fixing” digital advertising in 2018 and a DigiDay Changemaker. She is also a senior copywriter and product messaging strategist working with tech companies.

Roslyn is the Media and Information Literacy (MIL) project manager in the Strategy & Consulting Services department at DW Akademie. She has an undergraduate degree in Geography and Development Studies from King's College London (KCL) and London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and an M.A. in Responsible Management from Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin. Roslyn has over 15 years of experience in international development mainly focusing on education projects. She has lived and worked for many years in India, Kenya, and Sudan. Roslyn has been working for DW Akademie since 2015 and is based in Bonn.

Dejan Andonov, MA, is Program Coordinator at the Institute of Communication Studies from Macedonia, responsible for curriculum development and high quality delivery of the MA study programs in Media Management and Management of Strategic Communication. His educational and professional backgrounds are primarily related to communications and media. Mr. Andonov has long experience in teaching public relations, journalism and media literacy, has been part of many activities on these topics and is author of a media literacy handbook, documentaries and videos. In all contexts, he is always highly motivated to ensure the success of the entire team and the final project goals.

Cristina Tardáguila is the International Fact-Checking Network’s Associate Director. She is the founder of Agência Lupa, the first fact-checking initiative in her country, and also responsible for LupaEducação, its educational branch. Tardáguila studied Journalism at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and got her master’s degree, also in Journalism, from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, in Madrid (Spain). In 2017, she completed an MBA on Digital Marketing, from Fundação Getulio Vargas. As a reporter and/or an editor, Tardáguila has worked in some of the most important media outlets in Brazil: O Globo, Folha de S.Paulo, Globo.com and revista piauí. She has also published two books: “A Arte do Descaso” (in 2016), about the biggest art heist in Brazil – still an unsolved crime. And “Você foi Enganado” (2018), about presidential false claims heard in Brazilian politics since 1920.

Her interest in dis/misinformation combat has taken her to TEDx’s red carpet twice and has turned her into elPeriodico’s best journalist of 2018.

Elfi De Vos works as an educational officer for the Belgian youthfilm organization JEF.
She is responsible for the development of media workshops and various innovative
projects. She holds a Master degree in Film of the Royal Academy of Ghent. She has
many years of experience in facilitating workshops with children from all ages (2-18
years) and shared her experiences in trainings for teachers.

Chloe Colliver leads the Digital Analysis Unit at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) where she heads the programme of research exploring the tactics, actors and systems involved in the promotion of terrorism, extremism and disinformation (including in the European parliamentary, Bavarian, Swedish and German elections). In her work, Chloe has shaped the digital policy responses to these kinds of digital threats, working with academia, policymakers, technologists and civil society to confront the exploitation of technology for malicious purposes. This includes support to national governments in the design of digital policy regulation, as well as collaboration with technologists and academia to harness AI and ML to find opportunities for interventions to challenge disinformation or extremist activity online. Chloe is an experienced media spokesperson and regularly provides insight and analysis for outlets including the New York Times, BBC, The Guardian and POLITICO.  

Karen Rebelo is the Deputy Editor at BOOM Live, a fact-checking organisation based in Mumbai.
Karen is an investigative journalist and a fact-checker specialising in uncovering misinformation and disinformation in India. She is also a verification trainer. In 2018, she spearheaded BOOM's fact-checking workshops for journalists across India as part of the Google News Initiative. Karen is a former Reuters business news journalist and has reported about mining companies in the UK, the Indian stock market and private equity space.

On October 24th, the Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Team will be hosting a half-day interactive workshop on civil society and computational propaganda. The aims of this workshop are to equip attendees with working understanding of the operation of bots, junk news producers and social media manipulation; work together to outline potential ways civil society groups might encounter these issues; and explore avenues for preparation and response. Our workshops will feature three lightening presentations:

1. Online Mis/Disinformation: Lessons from the European Parliamentary Elections
2. Computational Propaganda and Junk News: The “Nuts” & “Bolts" 
3. Social Media Manipulation in Iran: Implications for Civil Society