Further Material

This article outlines how automated fact-checking (AFC) is being developed and progresses in order to support with verification tasks that, manually, take up a lot of time. Furthermore, manual fact-checking usually can not keep up with the quick spread of false information. That is why researchers and journalists / fact-checkers need to collaborate.

What are recent trends, technological developments and countermeasures when it comes to Generative AI and disinformation? What can be done about it? Who's leading the race? Read all about it in this extensive report put together jointly by consortium partners of vera.ai.

In this contribution, Raquel Miguel, Senior Researcher at EU DisinfoLab and a partner in vera.ai, takes a look at AI ploicy updates and investigates how labelling can (or won't) support when it comes to countering disinformation.

In this short conversation with Deutsche Welle's Anna Schild, Andrey Tagarev of ONTOTEXT outlines the Bulgarian company's approach behind the so-called Database of Known Fakes - a repository that collects existing debunks and makes them searchable. Find out more about what's behind it and the approach taken.

Here's another interview that was conducted at the February 2024 consortium meeting in Thessaloniki. Anna Schild of Deutsche Welle talked to Nicola Righetti of the University Urbino about their work and what outcomes are expected from it. A focus of the team's work: detecting coordinated inauthentic behaviour. 

At our project consortium meeting in Thessaloniki in February 2024 we conducted a number of interviews with project partners and asked them to summarize and highlight some of their work. Here's DW's Jochen Spangenberg talking to project coordinator Symeon Papadopoulos of the Mever team at CERTH-ITI. 

The EU Horizon Europe co-funded projects TITAN, AI4Media, AI4Trust and vera.ai have joined forces - several project participants co-wrote a White Paper entitled "Generative AI and Disinformation: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities." It takes a look at past and present developments and raises issues for the future in this highly relevant field.

At our project consortium meeting in Thessaloniki in February 2024 we conducted a number of interviews with project partners and asked them to summarise and highlight some of their work. Here's DW's Jochen Spangenberg talking to Luca Cuccovillo of Fraunhofer IDMT. 

Following a call to action by the European Commission requesting feedback on the systemic risks related to electoral processes, individuals from a number of vera.ai consortium partners sketched out their views on the matter. In this article, some of the contributions made are recapped and shared. The full submission to the EC is attached, too.

For over 18 months now, the vera.ai consortium has been doing research, developed new tools and spread its results. In mid-March 2024 it was time to publish a set of three deliverables that present and summarize the research and development work that has been done in the respective work packages so far. Here, you can find more about them.