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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…
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Faktisk.no, University of Bergen launch AI tool prototypes
The tools, developed by UiB doctoral student Sohail Ahmed Khan, are used for recognizing armored vehicles and for language detection in videos The tools were developed by Khan during a two-month stay with NORDIS partner Faktisk.no’s verification newsroom, Faktisk Verifiserbar. The newsroom, while headed by Faktisk.no, was a joint effort between a wide range of…
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NORDIS leader gives keynote at Nordic Democracy Day
NORDIS leader, professor Anja Bechmann of Aarhus University’s DATALAB, gave a keynote address at Nordic Democracy Day seminar in Hanaholmen, Finland. The headline topic was democracy and digitalisation, and the speakers addressed various aspects of the challenges technological developments pose to democracies, especially in the digital domain, from hybrid threats to the need for improved…
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Introducing: Fact-checking tools database
We’re happy to unveil the fact-checking tools database! The database, which was conceived at a meeting during Global Fact 9 in Oslo, contains a list of tools connected to various parts of the fact-checking process, including the identification and verification of claims, as well as the distribution of fact-checks. The database was compiled by NORDIS…
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NORDIS Policy Work: a report in brief
Our first-year report on our policy work. While NORDIS works independently from national and international authorities and private interests, the findings and practical insights of the NORDIS partners can be a key factor in better countering information disorders in the region. Hence, the NORDIS partners have worked continuously to share their expertise, findings, and knowledge…
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One year of NORDIS: a brief report on the activities of the consortium
The consortium marks its first anniversary. September 1st 2022 marked the successful implementation of the first half of the initial two-year project period of the Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder (NORDIS). From the start, NORDIS has set out to be a consortium that creates synergies across countries and sectors (academics and journalists/fact-checkers/educators),…
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New NORDIS preprint: Expressions of joy during the COVID-19 pandemic
Study by NORDIS partners at Aarhus University’s DATALAB detects joy, anger, but little fear in corpus of Nordic Twitter posts. The following post provides the Executive summary of the report by the DATALAB team. The full report can be accessed here. The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed for unprecedented studies of public emotions in times of…