Kalina Bontcheva

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 showcase innovative responses to counter disinformation and propaganda across Europe. The InVID/WeVerify plugin was amongst...

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, coding and developments event to fight COVID-19, organised by the EU Commission. The challenges...

Our verification plug-in is being used for debunking disinformation about the coronavirus in numerous countries (USA, France, India, Portugal, Netherlands, Colombia, Ecuador, Mauritius), and languages (e.g. English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese) by many fact-checkers and news...

In the run-up to the UK 2019 general election, the WeVerify partner University of Sheffield carried out a longitudinal quantitative analysis of abusive tweets targeting Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson. This showed a 200-fold increase in 2019, from across...