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On 17 and 25 June 2025, the vera.ai consortium invites interested individuals to attend two online events in which project outcomes will be presented. The sessions on 17 June will focus on vera.ai tools and services, with the primary target audience being journalists and fact-checkers. Sessions on 25 June will present deep dives into research, aiming to reach primarily academics and researchers.

On 6 May 2025 at 5 pm CET (11-12 am Eastern Time), Dr. Quentin Bammey of the Image and Visual Representation Lab of EPFL will give a webinar at the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Topic: spectral artefacts left by image resampling and their use to fight disinformation. Participation is free, but prior registration is required.

On 3 April 2025 vera.ai joined the first online webinar of the AI-on-Demand Webinar Series. Title: AI Innovation From Research to Market. We were represented by Olga Papadopoulou (CERTH), supported with input from Martin Hyben (KInIT) and Luca Cuccovillo (IDMT). Here's more, including links to available assets.

Jakob Abesser of Fraunhofer IDMT shared his latest veraAI research work at the 51st Annual Meeting on Acoustics (DAS | DAGA 2025) which took place at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark in March 2025. In this article you can read more about the conference highlights and the key findings of his research. 

On 17 and 24 June 2025 the vera.ai project consortium will host two online events in which project partners will present research outcomes and respective challenges. Sessions will take place from 2-5 pm via video conference. The 17 June session is dedicated to end user facing tools, while 24 June will target primarily the research community. Overriding topic: AI and content analysis. 

In the midst of summer 2025, the 4th edition of the ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’25) will take place. It is organized in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR’25) that is held in Chicago, US, this year. MAD'25 is co-organised by vera.ai's Milica Gerhardt (IDMT) and Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH-ITI). Mark 30 June - 3 July in your calendars. And submit your paper! Details about topics and procedures in article.

vera.ai's project partners CERTH, USFD and Ontotext presented advances in synthetic content detection, textual analysis and narrative exploration at the Sofia Information Integrity Forum (SIIF), held from 7–9 November 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Here's a summary of their contributions, plus insights into work done, including results to date as well as approaches and challenges.

Following vera.ai tools being featured in a report of the European External Action Services (EEAS), vera.ai project partner EU DisinfoLab is inviting anyone interested to a webinar on 12 December from 14:30-15:30 CET with Maria Giovanna Sessa and Raquel Miguel Serrano in which some of the report findings will be presented. More about the event, including a link for (compulsory) registration below.

On Thursday 14 November 2024 we launched our presence on BlueSky, a federated social network that in many ways resembles old Twitter (not so much X as it is called now, and after it had been purchased by Elon Musk and was turned into a rather toxic platform). We’ll be posting more and more on BlueSky and see how things develop there - also keeping a very close eye on what happens on X.

This is the second edition in our webinar series organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It features Luca Cuccovillo and Milica Gerhardt of Fraunhofer IDMT who talk about and showcase their vera.ai work which focusses on tools, techniques and their research work related to the analysis of audio content - another activity that is to support in countering disinformation.