Category: Events

Kalina Bontcheva
The InVID/WeVerify Verification Plugin wins the U.S. Paris Tech Challenge against disinformation

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

Jochen Spangenberg
Recap and recordings of WeVerify’s workshop day 1 on technology to counter disinformation

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.

Zlatina Marinova
Technology and AI to Counter Disinformation

An Online Workshop 16 June 10:00 CEST - 14:00 CEST WeVerify Technology Demonstration 17 June 10:00 CEST - 13:00 CEST The WeVerify project is honoured

Olga Papadopoulou
WeVerify participation in Deepfake detection challenge

From 11 December 2019 to 31 March 2020, WeVerify project partner CERTH and specifically the MKLab MeVer team, participated in the Deepfake detection challenge. It

Kalina Bontcheva
Three WeVerify teams @EUvsVirus Hackathon

From 24 to 26 April 2020, Europe joined forces to develop innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges in the EUvsVirus hackathon, the official and worldwide programming,

Olga Papadopoulou
WeVerify Annotation team @EUvsVirus Hackathon

Europe has joined forces in order to develop innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges in the EUvsVirus hackathon, the official EU Commission hackathon to fight COVID-19.

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WeVerify at Truth and Trust Online

On the 4th and 5th of October 2019, WeVerify members participated in the first Truth and Trust Online conference (TTO) in London, UK. TTO is

Le Jour ni l'Heure: Albert Lebourg. Shared by Renaud Camus, licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Flickr. Desaturated from original.
Jochen Spangenberg
All Roads Lead to Rome (or Paris!): Context Aggregation and Analysis Tool Presentation at SIGIR ROME 2019 workshop in Paris

The Weverify Poster. Photo by Olga Papadopulou On 25 July 2019 WeVerify participated in the International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation Exposure (ROME) 2019 in

Denis Teyssou
Alexandria Media Forum

The 7th edition of the Alexandria Media Forum (AMF) was hosted for the first time by the American University in Cairo, in collaboration with Adham

The panel. Photo by Giorgia Mazza #ijf19
Jochen Spangenberg
International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy

This year saw the 19th edition of the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. The five-day event brings together thousands of journalists and media people