She is a Finnish journalist who specializes in pro-Russian Internet trolls. She was working for Finland's public service broadcaster Yle and she is the author of a non-fiction book Putin's Trolls: On the Frontlines of Russia's Information War Against the World. In 2019 she was notified that she was to receive an International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. Department of State but this was rescinded just before the ceremony. She works on her new book about Russia. Photo credit: Nelli Kivinen

He is currently also the Co-Director of UT’s Global (Dis)Information Lab and is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies.

Her research interest focuses on the challenges of the 21st century, and with it on talent associated with specific learning difficulties, ADHD and/or autism spectra. She is a lecturer at several universities. She founded the Atypical Development Methodology Centre, the Adolescent and Adult Dyslexia Centre and the Special Need Talent Support Council.

He started his career in 2002 at a daily newspaper (Magyar Nemzet) as a journalist specializing in foreign affairs. From 2015 he became a co-editor of the newspaper and the author of the Magyar Nemzet Magazin. In 2017 he was nominated to be the vice editor-in-chief. He also worked as an editor for Hír TV and as a broadcaster at Lánchíd Rádió. Once Magyar Nemzet was shut down, he co-founded Magyar Hang, of which he is the editor-in-chief until today.

In 2002, he was appointed to the board of the competence network 'Stem Cell Research North Rhine-Westphalia'. He is a member of the Association of German Teachers of Constitutional Law, the Study Group for Press Law and Freedom of the Press and the German Lawyers' Conference.

He advises Reset the overall policy direction. Based in Berlin, Felix currently focuses on building civil society coalitions in the face of growing digital threats to democracy. Also, he helps policymakers develop systemic approaches to regulating Big Tech and reining into surveillance capitalism.

As a former head advisor of film and media education at the Budapest Institute of Education, she participated in the development and implementation of the school subject “Moving Image and Media Literacy” in the Hungarian National Curriculum. She designed and held in-service teacher training courses for media literacy educators and co-authored textbooks as well.    

At the London School of Economics he runs the Arena Initiative, dedicated to investigating the roots of disinformation and what to do about them. His first book, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. He is also the author of This is not Propaganda - Adventures in the War against Reality.

He has been a journalist all his life. It was a career he prepared for from an early age, learning early on to stand up for the truth. He worked for the Hajdú-Bihari Napló and became its editor-in-chief. For many years, he wrote monthly evaluative analyses and reviews for Népszabadság Online, and regularly published articles in the online version of Magyar Narancs and Átlátszo. The first final conviction in a Holocaust denial trial in Hungary is also linked to Zsolt's work. He is currently editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Debreciner, of which he is also the founder.

She has been teaching  and researching, for more than 20 years, in the areas of Media Systems and Comparative Studies, Communication Ethics, Media Economics and Cultural Industries. Her recent research focus is on information disorders, conspiracy theories and the media, digital audiences, online radicalisation. She was a visiting fellow at several places (such as the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark; Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland; European University Institute, Italy and Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Germany).

Dr Krisztina Rozgonyi works at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and she is an international media, telecommunication and IP legal and policy expert. She also manages a platform at the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna to bridge research with policy agendas.

Michael is an internationally respected investigative journalist who has covered the wars in Syria and Ukraine and published widely on Russian espionage and disinformation. His first book, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, was a New York Times Best Seller and named one of the Top Ten Books on Terrorism by the Wall Street Journal as well as one of the Best Books of 2015 by The Times of London. It has been translated into seventeen foreign languages. He is a regular guest on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC and Real Time with Bill Maher. He writes a column for The Daily Beast. He lives in New York.