Sam Wineburg

Sam Wineburg is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of DIG. He is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Educated at Brown and Berkeley, he holds a doctorate in Psychological Studies in Education from Stanford and an honorary doctorate from Sweden's Umeå University. In 2002, Wineburg founded the Stanford History Education Group. His current work focuses on how people judge the credibility of digital content—research that has been reported in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, TIME Magazine, the BBC, and Die Zeit. His latest book, Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online, with Mike Caulfield, was published in 2023 by the University of Chicago Press.