The U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center’s 2021 U.S.-Paris Tech Challenge against disinformation and propaganda took place on September 29-30, 2021. The aim was to
On 16 and 17 June 2021, the WeVerify project hosted a two-day workshop. Focus: the role of technology and artificial intelligence in the disinformation sphere.
1st Branch : The Coordination assessment The coordination of accounts and adoption of techniques to publish, promote and spread false content is being referred to
The former US president Donald Trump is well known for his disproportionate use of the expression “fake news” during his four-years mandate. Especially on Twitter,
Sam Gregory is Program Director of WITNESS, an organisation that works with people who use video to document human rights issues. WITNESS focuses on how
Here’s an interview conducted by Deutsche Welle’s Julia Bayer with Jane Lytvynenko, senior reporter with Buzzfeed News. Its focus: online mis- and disinformation and the
In this post, we explain the basics behind our method for calculating video similarity based on audio information. This work was carried out in the
A common difficulty faced by journalists and fact-checkers - beyond analytics and forensics - is assessing as early as possible the newsworthiness of a potential
Overview WeVerify testing ran from December 2019 and will continue until September 2021. In total, nine test cycles have been scheduled in order to evaluate
Bringing social network analysis to fact-checkers With the COVID-19 worldwide crisis, an unprecedented wave of misinformation has been observed online. Unfortunately, disinformation has swept across
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