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Fake News Festival 2026

European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Große Scharrnstraße 59, Frankfurt, Germany

How does our world change when artificial intelligence produces content faster than we can verify it? The Fake News Festival brings together science, practice, and the public to examine disinformation, artificial intelligence, and the future of our information society from diverse perspectives. In keynotes, lectures, and workshops, experts from research, media, politics, and civil society discuss how AI is changing the creation and spread of fake news, what risks and opportunities […]

The Luddite Conference on Participatory Futures | The New School

The New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY The New School's Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

With companies like OpenAI taking Pentagon contracts and Elon Musk using government resources to scrape Americans’ data, it’s hard to feel that there are any tangible ways to resist the techno-fascist backslide. To regain a sense of social agency, we are convening a participatory conference inspired by the Luddite movement. We will tackle questions such […]

World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2026

ITU Headquarters Pl. des Nations 1211, Geneva, Switzerland

The WSIS Forum serves as the central multistakeholder convening platform mandated to advance the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines and support global digital cooperation. Anchored in the renewed UNGA mandate, the Forum brings together governments, the private sector, civil society, technical communities, academia, youth, and international organizations in a uniquely inclusive environment for dialogue, […]

12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)

University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont, United States

The International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be hosted by the Vermont Complex Systems Institute at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont from July 28-31, 2026. IC2S2 has emerged as the dominant conference at the intersection of social and computational science, bringing together researchers from around the world in sociology, economics, political science, psychology, cognitive science, […]

5th Annual Civics of Technology Online Conference: Against Tech Hype

Virtual

Hype, hope, disappointment. Hype is the rhetoric of tech billionaires, of VCs, of tech-pushers, of AI boosters and AI doomers. Hype is about attention, grabbing it, holding it. Hype is about resources, gathering them, directing them. Hype is about control. Tech hype is a problem for our society and our schools. It points our time, […]

EDMO BELUX 2.0 | Countering disinformation, raising democratic resilience

Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies (BrIAS) Blvd Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, Belgium

The final conference for EDMO BELUX 2.0: Based in Belgium and Luxembourg, we take the opportunity to reflect how our efforts across fact-checking, media literacy, research investigations to monitor and respond to disinformation raise resilience in democratic societies. In particular we seek to contribute policy evidence of societal threats and responses to disinformation. This conference […]

SEASON 2026 Conference | Search Engines and Society Network

HAW Hamburg – Finkenau Campus Finkenau 35, Hamburg, Germany

Search Engines and Society Annual Conference (SEASON 2026) brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the societal impact of search technologies. The conference offers keynotes, panels, workshops, and networking opportunities. Some of the themes for this year’s conference include: Political bias and elections Literacy and education AI overviews and trust Health and high-stakes information AI […]

POLITICO Decoded Summit: AI & Tech Policy

Hybrid

Join POLITICO in Washington, D.C. for special conversations with policymakers, regulators, industry leaders, investors and innovators crafting the rules of the road for AI and the decisions shaping its future. _____ As the development and deployment of artificial intelligence transforms the economy and society, decisions being made today by policymakers and executives will determine who […]

INMA Media Innovation Week

Hotel Riu Plaza España Gran Vía, 84, Centro, Madrid, Spain

INMA’s Media Innovation Week returns to Madrid in September 2026 — uniting Europe’s most ambitious media leaders at the intersection of data, product, audience, and revenue. Madrid will convene the people setting the pace for Europe’s news industry. Alongside established voices, you’ll hear from the innovators building what comes next — the creators rewriting engagement, […]

CRC Critical Data Autumn School 2026 | Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI

University Siegen Herrengarten 3, Siegen, Germany

Social media platforms are increasingly shaped by the integration of generative AI alongside long-standing analytical and predictive models. Today’s algorithmic systems are moving from the background infrastructure to the forefront of digital social life – intervening in the content feeds as conversational agents like xAI’s Grok, reshaping identity through synthetic likenesses of OpenAI’s Sora-2, and […]