Heather Ford is a writer, scholar and designer of public knowledge technologies. Her research focuses on the social implications of digital media technologies and the ways in which they might be better designed and regulated to prevent disinformation, social exclusion, and epistemic injustice. She was the first public lead for Creative Commons South Africa, a former advisory board member of the Wikimedia Foundation and an alumnus fellow of the Stanford Reuters Digital Entrepreneurship programme. Her work has been covered by Slate, the New Scientist, the BBC, ABC, Der Welt and the Financial Times. Ford’s latest book, “Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age” published by MIT Press traces the power of Wikipedia to determine consensus truth about what happened and why in the context of current, historic events. It has been featured in several publications including the Financial Times and applauded as setting “(a) new benchmark for Wikipedia research” (Nathaniel Tkacz) and providing “a more clear-eyed explanation of what Wikipedia is, who Wikipedians are, and why it matters, than any other book published to date” (Andreas Kolbe, The Signpost).