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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.

Here's another project that was carried out during the 2023 Winter School organised by the University of Amsterdam’s Digital Methods Initiative (DMI). The work of this team, coordinated by the hosts themselves, among other tested a "detection method” that is to allow fact-checkers for faster detection of “post-truth spaces” and verification of actors that spread (in this case pro-Kremlin) propaganda on social networks.

During the 2023 Winter School organised by the University of Amsterdam’s Digital Methods Initiative, a Uni URB team, led by by Fabio Giglietto, carried out a project that dealt with (mis)information dynamics in online networks in the context of the war in Ukraine. Here’s what they found.

In June 2023, you are invited to the Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD'23). It is co-hosted with the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval and brought to you by AI4Media and vera.ai. Join us in June in Thessaloniki, Greece. 

On 17 January 2023 from 2-3 pm the EBU is hosting a webinar in which vera.ai will be introduced and community views will be canvassed. We present how user needs of newsroom professionals and fact-checkers are to be included in the project, and which role you can play in all this.

The University of Amsterdam (UvA), Department of Media Studies, is organising a Digital Methods Winter School 2023 from 9-13 January. Topic: ’The use and misuse of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)’. Here's a call for participation. 

The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and the so-called EDMO Hubs are the EU’s primary initiatives in the fight against disinformation. This article provides an overview and insights into existing links between EDMO, the Hubs and vera.ai.

On 12 October 2022 Eva Kaili, Vice President of the European Parliament, invited an interested audience to a session hosted by her in Brussels.