Elise Hutchinson, PhD

About Elise Hutchinson, PhD

Elise is one of the founders of foodfacts.org. She is a linguistics professional who was awarded Summa Cum Laude for her PhD thesis, which focused on the cognitive and discursive mechanisms behind effective persuasion, particularly in the long term. She is passionate about finding ways to fight against the spread of misinformation and disinformation, and to generate meaningful, constructive debates.

She is Director of Research and Co-Editor in Chief at foodfacts.org. Her responsibilities include:

• Conducting research into misinformation, its mechanisms and evidence-based methods to fight it effectively
• Training all of our volunteer fact-checkers
• Overseeing the fact-checking process, from selecting claims to fact-checks, writing fact-checks to editing final drafts
• Content creation
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Elise earned her PhD at the Université de Neuchâtel and currently lives in England.

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