Marília Gehrke (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen, and she is also the creator of the crowdsourced initiative Forced to Quit, which aims to map women in politics, journalism, and activism who had to leave the public sphere due to violence. Gehrke’s research interests are gendered disinformation, fact-checking, AI/data journalism, and transparency. In the fact-checking domain, she is one of the co-founders of the For Your Information Network, which brings together researchers and practitioners.

 

Previous fellowships include the Digital Democracy Centre (DDC) at the University of Southern Denmark, where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Trust and News Authenticity Project, and the Weizenbaum Institute in Germany, in the Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda research group.