Challenging Misinformation: Exploring Limits and Approaches
Co-Inform joined forces with the European project Eunomia to run together the workshop “Challenging Misinformation: Exploring Limits and Approaches”, held at Social Informatics Conference 2020 (SocInfo2020) on Tuesday, October 6th, 2020.
Co-inform’s innovative technical solutions to tackle misinformation on social media
We can summarise Co-inform’s core technical solution as a “decentralised, transparent and community-driven misinformation linking system”.
Evaluating the news on social media: truth or lies?
On July 16th the Cyprus University of Technology held a webinar on misinformation and why it spreads online.
Telling stories with data: FactCheckNI session at Global Fact 7
As part of the annual summit of the International Fact-Checking Network, FactCheckNI hosted “Telling Stories with Data” at Global Fact 7, an online session that explored the use of data in news and information presented to the public.
How does Co-Inform fit in the European Commission’s strategy to shape Europe’s Digital Future?
How does our project, an EU-funded, academic, technology and policy research project, fit into the EC’s multi-faceted digital strategy?
Digital Governments — lessons from COVID-19
Co-Inform has participated in a DG CONNECT & REA roundtable discussion about Digital Governments and COVID-19 and how the pandemic has changed the field of digital government.
Co-Inform has started the Third Round of Co-Creation Workshops
The third round of workshops across Greece, Austria and Sweden has started in June 2020. Citizens and policymakers are evaluating two Co-Inform tools: a plugin and a dashboard. The workshops have been held online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
An Interview with Hugo Mercier
In mid-March, as the Covid-19 pandemic was already sweeping through Asia and continental Europe, we spoke to Hugo Mercier, a psychologist specialising in how and why human beings came to think and behave the way that they do.
You can’t read this blog post: information disorder, content moderation, and freedom of expression online
On May 3, the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day. This day serves as an occasion to inform citizens of violations of press freedom – a reminder that in dozens of countries around the world, publications are censored, fined, suspended and closed down, while journalists, editors and publishers are harassed, attacked, detained and sometimes even murdered.
Misinformation and COVID-19
Never before has the quality and accuracy of the information we are consuming mattered on such an immediate and global scale.
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Co-inform project is co-funded by Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020)
H2020-SC6-CO-CREATION-2016-2017 (CO-CREATION FOR GROWTH AND INCLUSION)
Type of action: RIA (Research and Innovation action)
Proposal number: 770302