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Symposium on Disinformation Studies | Swarthmore College

A central feature of the Disinformation Studies program is the annual Symposium on Disinformation Studies. The Symposium is a multiday, interdisciplinary, cross-sector conference featuring practitioners and scholars who diagnose the mechanisms and effects of information warfare, foster nuanced understanding of contemporary processes of disinformation, prognosticate on the probable evolution of disinformation, and generate interdisciplinary solutions […]

Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy | University of Chicago

With democracies across the globe under assault,The University of Chicago’s nonpartisan Institute of Politics and The Atlantic are hosting Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy, a groundbreaking three-day event exploring the organized spread of disinformation and strategies to respond to it. The conference, April 6 to 8, will explore the roots and scope of the […]

Lies, Free Speech, and the Law | Knight First Amendment Institute

On April 8, 2022, the Knight Institute will host a symposium to explore how the law regulates or should regulate false and misleading speech. The symposium, titled “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law,” is being overseen by the Institute’s Senior Visiting Research Scholar Genevieve Lakier and will take place at Columbia University. The symposium will focus on five themes […]

The Future of Social Media: Covering, Researching, and Regulating Platforms | NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics

Social media platforms generate mountains of data — about what we like, what news we read, and who we talk to. This information, for the most part, is only available to the companies themselves, meaning journalists, researchers, policymakers, and the public lack a clear understanding of how social media impacts our society. The Facebook Papers […]

CSMaP Second Annual Conference | NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics

We convened 50 leading scholars for a two-day virtual conference to present research on a range of topics at the intersection of social media and politics, with particular focus paid to the relationship between social media and polarization. *Presented virtually on Zoom due to coronavirus health precautions All times listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Trust & Safety Research Conference | SIO & TSF

Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA, United States

Hosted at Stanford University’s Frances. C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, the Trust and Safety Research Conference will convene trust and safety practitioners, people in government and civil society, and academics in fields like computer science, sociology, law, and political science to think deeply about trust and safety issues.

Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM)

Virtual

After three successful editions, the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) returns for a 4th edition, this time hosted as a fully virtual conference by Boise State University on October 11-12, 2022.  The symposium brings together researchers from multiple disciplines, including communication science, computer science, computational social science, political science, psychology, journalism, and media studies, […]

The Joint Computation + Journalism European Data & Computational Journalism Conference

ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland

The Joint Computation+Journalism and European Data & Computational Journalism Conference aims to bring together industry, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production. It will be hosted on June 23-24 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. This unique conference will focus on information, data, social and computer sciences, facilitating a multidisciplinary discussion on these […]

Meet the future of AI (and us!): registration for the event now open | vera.ai VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence

Hybrid

Maarten Schenk is co-founder of Belgian fact-checking outlet Lead Stories. He is very active in the field of debunking. At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, DW’s Jochen Spangenberg asked him about his views on how Artificial Intelligence will impact the production as well as spreading of disinformation, and what this means for fact-checkers like […]