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The challenges of resources and tools for fact-checking the Russian-Ukrainian war
Information disorders have no borders, and the case of the Russian-Ukrainian war illustrates a dynamic where manipulated contents travel from one country to another while also being able to stick to national contexts. The University of Bergen’s study highlights the main challenges faced by the Nordic fact-checkers, which they share with fact-checkers worldwide. The research…
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AI-based classifier tool presented to NORDIS members
Sohail Ahmed Khan, a doctoral student at the University of Bergen/MediaFutures, gave a presentation on the Tank Classifier he developed during his stay at Faktisk Verifiserbar. In a previous post, we wrote about a Tank Classifier and language detection tool The tools have since been presented to various groups of journalists and fact-checkers, including members…
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A Nordic Approach to Democratic Debate in the Age of Big Tech
Nordic think tank on big tech releases report. A little less than a year ago, we were able to share that NORDISresearcher Minna Horowitz and NORDIS PI Anja Bechmann had beeninvited to take part in a New Nordic think tank on the influence of big techin the Nordic countries. Read the new report from the…
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NORDIS researchers recommend policies to prevent information disorders
The following are five policy recommendations identified by NORDIS researchers Mathias Holm Tveen, Marina Charquero Ballester, Jessica Gabriele Walter, and Anja Bechmann, all of Aarhus University, based on their research work and findings during the first two-year project period. 1. Access to higher-quality data from social media is needed Data from social media poses an…
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The demise of Google? NORDIS leader Anja Bechmann in conversation with ChatGPT
The Aarhus University professor and the chatbot touch on topics like the future of search, algorithmic justice, and the challenge of large-scale misinformation production enabled by generative AI. Read the conversation here (in Danish). Image credit: Lise Balsby / Aarhus University
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Faktabaari and University of Helsinki design a course on disinformation and DIL
Disinformation and resilience and literacy efforts to combat information disordershave quickly become central to many fields of academic scrutiny. It is also importantto educate future media professionals of the recent developments in both practiceand research of fact-checking and literacy efforts. The University of Helsinki, together with Faktabaari, have designed a Bachelor-levelcourse on Disinformation and Digital…
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NORDIS and DIGIRES collaborate on policy brief
University of Helsinki researcher Minna Horowitz and Auksė Balčytienė of the Lithuanian EDMO hub DIGIRES and Vytautas Magnus University have published a report discussing how to understand and measure resilience against misinformation. Below is the executive summary of the report. The full report can be read here. This policy brief stems from a research collaboration…
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Fear, sadness predominant emotions in covid tweets, Aarhus University report finds
The Aarhus team analysed a large dataset of tweets using specially trained model. The text below is the report’s executive summary. A complete version of the report can be accessed here. In February 2020, only a month after the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the crisis was accompanied by…
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Misinformation about social services abducting children spreads across Nordic region, joint NORDIS investigation shows
Misinformation about children being abducted by social services is a familiar phenomenon in most Nordic countries, but the fact that it is a phenomenon with regional variations, has not been well known – until now. In April 2022, a video containing Arabic language allegations that Finnish social services kidnap children in order to sell them…
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UiB Releases FotoVerifier Tool, Accompanying Report
The following is the executive summary of the report: These deliverables aim at developing and improving fact-checker tools through the creationof tailor-made algorithms in multimedia forensics. The goal is to address specific problems infact-checking and improve existing technologies, with a view to creating stand-aloneprototypes that can be integrated into existing platforms. One such tool that…