With vaccines for COVID-19 beginning to be rolled out, public health officials face the difficult challenge of encouraging widespread adoption amid rampant misinformation about both the disease and its treatments. On the latest edition of Lawfare‘s Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic speak with Claire Wardle, the co-founder of the non-profit First Draft
and a research fellow at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center. A recent First Draft report concludes that a lack of trust in the institutions developing vaccines are helping fuel misinformation narratives, which are flourishing amid a relative lack of credible information about vaccine development.
Authors
Commentary
Podcast: Claire Wardle on vaccine misinformation
Evelyn Douek,
ED
Evelyn Douek
S.J.D. Candidate
- Harvard Law School
@evelyndouek
Quinta Jurecic, and
Quinta Jurecic
Fellow
- Governance Studies,
Senior Editor
- Lawfare
@qjurecic
Claire Wardle
CW
Claire Wardle
December 14, 2020