A conversation with Angie Drobnic Holan on misinformation, fact-checking, and the modern media landscape

MIT Science Policy Review spoke with Angie Drobnic Holan, the director of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), about the challenges of combating mis- and disinformation on modern media platforms. The IFCN was launched in 2015, and its primary goal is to bring together and support the growing community of fact-checkers in their fight against misinformation. Previously, Holan served as editor-in-chief of the U.S. fact-checking site PolitiFact for 10 years. She has extensive experience fact-checking the presidency, Congress, and political campaigns, and was a reporter on the PolitiFact team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Angie Drobnic Holan holds a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University and a Master’s in Library Science from the University of South Florida. Her undergraduate degree is from the Plan II liberal arts program at the University of Texas at Austin.