Skylar Hughes
MSc Student
Skylar Hughes
MSc Student
Skylar is a graduate of Duke University through the Robertson Scholars Program, and an MSc student at the OII. She combines psychological research with front-line experience combating misinformation. As part of CNN’s fact-checking unit, she fact-checked over 100 articles and served on the Republican National Convention live fact-checking team. Her fact-checking expertise extends to the Poynter Institute, where her content reached over 150,000 people.
Skylar expanded on this work at Duke’s Marsh Memory Lab, where she secured grant funding to lead and publish experimental research on misinformation correction. She shared her insights on the TEDxDuke stage in 2025.
At Oxford, Skylar’s interests lie in leveraging content governance, platform regulation, and AI to regulate misinformation in a way that minimizes user disruption. She believes that accurate information is not a privilege, but a right.
Content Moderation, Misinformation, Disinformation, Platform Regulation, Free Speech