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January 21, 2026 — Interview with Skylar Hughes

Reading about Skylar Hughes is like reading about the early days of a superstar. A ballerina, a young academic powerhouse, and a community and psychological researcher for years already, Skylar went from high school in Georgia to attending Duke University, her dream at the time.

She worked as a fact-checker at CNN, and caught our eye with her TEDxDuke talk about social norms around truth.

Since then, she has graduated from Duke and is now pursuing a Master’s in the Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute.

In this interview, we discuss distinctions between norms…

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