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On 10 and 11 September 2024, the first part of the Disinfo Academy training took place in Sarajevo. Highlights of the training: The second part of the training will take place in October 2024 in an online format. The partners also took the opportunity to discuss the upcoming tasks for the implementation of Work Package…

Meet the winner of the DisinfoAcademy Fake News Challenge contest: Team Rebel Wave from Romania. Toma Anastasiu and Ioana Stănică-Marinescu are both “Communication and Emerging Media” students at the National University for Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest. They won the contest by creating a TikTok video about a non-existent TikTok video.

10 teams from four countries participated in the final stage of an international Fake News Challenge contest within the “Disinfo Academy” project. The students had to identify and debunk disinformation narratives related to climate change. In this way, they tested in practice the improved fact-checking methodology proposed in the project “Disinfo Academy”. The participants analysed publications by fact-checking organizations on climate change to isolate one particular disinformation…

As part of our Disinfo Academy project, we organised a number of focus groups covering all participating countries: Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The focus groups’ sessions took around two hours and we presented the participants with video-based news and recorded their screens as they proceeded to verify the information. As we are…

With the kick-off meeting in Sofia of the recently approved Erasmus+ project Disinfo Academy we are putting together the brainpower of a handful of academics, researchers and practitioners to study, evaluate and propose an updated fact-checking algorithm that is based on current practices and trends in the online behaviour of young people. We recognise that…