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In this final video of the short interview series recorded in Perugia at the International Journalism Festival 2023, Felix M. Simon of the Oxford Internet Institute talked to DW's Jochen Spangenberg about the role generative AI is likely to play on the disinformation and verification sphere.

Maarten Schenk is co-founder of Belgian fact-checking outlet Lead Stories. He is very active in the field of debunking. At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, DW's Jochen Spangenberg asked him about his views on how Artificial Intelligence will impact the production as well as spreading of disinformation, and what this means for fact-checkers like him.

At the International Journalism Festival 2023 in Perugia DW's Jochen Spangenberg interviewed Nic Newman of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism to find out what he thought would be the impact of recent advances in Artificial Intelligence on the disinformation and verification sphere. Watch the short video to hear what Nic had to say.

Meet us at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia from 20-22 April, one of the primary events in the world in which the journalism and media community come together and  discuss a great variety of aspects related to the past, present and future of the media industry

Eneya Georgieva, product owner of Ontotext's disinformation-related products, showcased the Searchable Graph of Enriched Debunks, DBKF (also known as Database of Known Fakes), at the EBU’s Data Technology Seminar 2023 onsite in Geneva.

Project coordinator Olga Papadopoulou, CERTH, presented vera.ai and the MeVer toolset at this year's EBU data technology seminar held in Geneva and online. Here's a summary of what Olga presented and insights she shared with the audience.

Following the announcement of the date for our summer event “Meet the future of AI” (29 June 2023), we can now provide a preliminary programme. In short: the day focusses on a variety of relevant issues and challenges around generative AI (Artificial Intelligence). In particular, we will discuss and raise various aspects surrounding the tackling or countering of disinformation in this relatively new environment.

On 29 June 2023, the European Commission and four EU projects dealing with Artificial Intelligence and the countering of disinformation are hosting a one-day event in Brussels. Topic: the impact of AI on creating as well as tackling disinformation. Included: the state of play, regulatory aspects as well as practical insights from ongoing work and initiatives. 

At the “Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2023” vera.ai project partner Ontotext coordinated a project that aimed to engage participants in providing an analysis on how to identify different elements in the spread of disinformation, and come up with ideas of how to reduce disinformation dissemination through insights and tools. A key question: How to model the spread of disinformation by identifying its components and the connection between various instances?

In this piece we present findings from a study on current fact-checking archiving practices and Facebook post removals using the “War in Ukraine” dataset of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO). Insights presented here come from a project that was carried out as part of the Digital Methods Initiative Winter School and Data Sprint 2023.