Blog Fixing misinformation for the sake of democracy Author: Francesca Zuccotti, Digital Marketing & Communications Lead at Scytl You are what you eat, as they say. Just as too much junk food can lead to obesity, an overload of junk information can lead to a lack...
Blog The language of ‘fake news’. How and why does it work? Authors: Ronald Denaux, Senior Researcher and José Manuel Gómez Pérez, R&D Director at Expert System Iberia Language is a flexible and dynamic tool for communication. It provides us with a better...
Blog Why do people trust emotions more than facts? Misinformation and Politics in the Post-Truth era. Author: Dr. Oul Han, Postdoc Researcher at University of Koblenz and Landau Misinformation, disinformation, and post-truth facts (varyingly called “lies”, “fake...
Blog Why do people believe in ‘fake news’ and share it on social media? Authors: Dr. Dionysis Panos, Dr. Eleni Kyza, and Dr. Evangelos Karapanos – Cyprus University of Technology On March 9th, 2018, MIT researchers Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy and Sinan Aral published...
Blog What is fact-checking and why is it important? Authors: Allan LEONARD, Alan MEBAN, and Orna YOUNG – FactCheckNI The Oxford Dictionary describes fact-checking as a process seeking to “investigate (an issue) in order to verify the facts”. However, while...
Blog How is Co-Inform aligned with the EU strategy to tackle disinformation? Author: Dimitris Sotirchos, Researcher at eGovlab, Stockholm University A European approach to tackle online disinformation was first outlined in April 2018 with the EU Commission’s...
