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September 21, 2023 Exchange, cooperation and networking against disinformation: Under this premise, CORRECTIV and GADMO organized their first fact-checking conference on Friday, September 15, as part of the new b° future festival in Bonn. Around 40 participants accepted the invitation to the University of Bonn to discuss important topics related to disinformation, artificial intelligence, regulation […]

September 18, 2023 The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and the APA – Austria Presse Agency have been nominated with GADMO for the eAward 2023 in the category “Machine Learning and AI”. The research team of the Center for Digital Safety & Security of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and the fact checkers of

August 21, 2023 More than one in two people in Germany encounter politically motivated disinformation on the Internet at least occasionally (54%), and 85% say it has the potential to endanger democracy. These are the findings of a recent survey by the the forsa Institute for Social Research and Statistical Analysis commissioned by the Media

July 17, 2023 by Max Bernhard Despite Facebook’s supposed takedown last year, a pro-Russian disinformation campaign continues to be active on the social-media platform. It is promoting spoofed news and government websites, as well as content by politicians of Germany’s far-right AfD party. South Park-style Propaganda: That is how one could describe the cartoon series

May 30, 2023 The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) has established a Task Force on the 2024 European Parliament Elections. The main purpose of this initiative is to monitor the EU information ecosystem ahead of the elections, as well as monitoring, collecting and facilitating communications in research, MIL and fact-checking initiatives. Also building on the