🗣️In this week's newsletter: we unpack policy updates from Facebook and Twitter, plus new reports from the signatories of the Code of Practice on #Disinformation, a recap of our conference #Disinfo2020, and other news and research not to miss!
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ICYMI: The event summary and session videos from our annual conference #Disinfo2020 are now online!
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and if you did join us, we'd love your feedback!

It's time to close the #Disinfo2020. A big thank you to all of you, panelists and participants, who helped us to build a great event in such challenging times.

During our second session of the day, your great panel composed of @schmuziger, @JJaursch, Marie-Hélène Boulanger (@EU_Justice) and @memo98slovakia continues the discussion on how to safeguard the transparency of the democratic process in the digital age #Disinfo2020

For the last day of #Disinfo2020, we are extremely honored to welcome @EU_Commission Vice President Jourová (@VeraJourova) who will discuss #disinformation and safeguarding the integrity of European democracies with former MEP Diana Wallis @dianapwallis

👇Thread No. 2 on civil society's response to the infodemic #Disinfo2020

👇Thread 1 on civil society's response to the COVID-19 infodemic #Disinfo2020

👇Thread on assessing the response from platforms to the infodemic. Featuring:
📍Dr. Trisha Meyer, Professor of Digital Governancee and Participation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, @Trishajuleen #Disinfo2020

We now pass to Part 2 of our session with:
📍Dr. Trisha Meyer, Professor of Digital Governance and Participation at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, @Trishajuleen @IES_Brussels

We will reflect on some of the policies platforms have put in place #Disinfo2020

For the first panel of the day, Clement Wolf from @Google and @DavidAgranovich from @Facebook will join our great policy coordinator @DJEmeritus to talk about online platforms' responses to the #infodemic #Disinfo2020

👇 A second thread capturing the discussion during our Q&A on regulating disinformation at EU level (Day 2 of EU DisinfoLab's Annual Conference) #Disinfo2020

👇Thread on how to regulate disinformation in the EU Featuring:
📍@EU_Commission's Paolo Cesarini (@DSMeu),
📍@LubosKuklis (Board Member of the ERGA),
📍@GabrielleGuill2 (Article19)
📍@beloutrel (former head of the French government's social networks task force)🧐 #disinfo2020

A short thread from today's session by Dr Emmanuel Choquette from the University of Montreal, on humour, satire and freedom of speech #Disinfo2020 👇

Today's session is now beginning with Dr. Emmanuel Choquette (@ManuChoque) from the University of Montreal who will talk about how satire and humour online can be used to disinform, reinforce confirmation bias, and influence socio-political attitudes #Disinfo2020 💻

In today's 2nd session, we ask how the EU can regulate disinformation without undermining free speech? With the European Commission's Paolo Cesarini (@DSMeu) moderating a star panel composed of:
▶️@beloutrel
▶️@LubosKuklis
▶️@GabrielleGuill2 (@article19org)

#Disinfo2020

"It was just a joke".

We will start this third day of #Disinfo2020 with the Canadian researcher Emmanuelle Choquette @ManuChoque, who will talk about satire, humour and freedom of speech.

"We need to reduce the asymmetry of information" - @mathver highlighting a concern shared by other panelists on the lack of transparency and access to data from social media platforms #Disinfo2020

"You have the right to free speech, not the right to free reach or free profit" - Clare Melford (@DisinfoIndex) suggesting a way to try to think about regulation while preserving free speech. #Disinfo2020

"We need to understand better what is happening here and who is benefiting from it" - Matthias Spielkamp @spielkamp on the need to improve our understanding of algorithms' impact before trying to implement too much regulation. #Disinfo2020

And now, this is time to try to explore the black box of content distribution with a great panel composed of @mathver, Clare Melford, @gchaslot and @spielkamp #Disinfo2020

"Marketing is also manipulation" - Albert Moukheiber @ChiasmaParis making an interesting parallel between bots repeating political messages and commercial entities trying to push their ads everywhere #Disinfo2020

"Most of these problems have come to us very fast" - Albert Moukheiber @ChiasmaParis on how the information ecosystem has changed extremely rapidly for the past years, creating an enormous amount of new issues to deal with. #Disinfo2020

"The way how you reduce uncertainty is predictable" - Albert Moukheiber @ChiasmaParis talking about how cognitive bias can be used to push you to act a certain way online #Disinfo2020

We are very excited to be joined for the first keynote session of the day by neuroscientist Albert Moukheiber @ChiasmaParis, who will talk about how online platforms play on design and cognitive bias to keep us online for as long as possible #Disinfo2020

If you want to know more about the Secondary Infektion investigation presented this afternoon by @Lea_Ronzaud & @camillefrancois, you should definitely have a look at the fantastic website built by @Graphika_NYC.⬇️ #Disinfo2020

And now, this is time to talk about "foreign influence campaigns" #Disinfo2020

Fascinating discussion between @Camillefrancois and Mirko Ceselkoski on how the Internet Marketing Consultant from North Macedonia made money by spreading disinformation and polarizing content during the 2016 US presidential election. #Disinfo2020

And here we go.

This is the agenda for the first day of our virtual conference #Disinfo2020

Ground control to Major Tom.
Commencing countdown, engines on.
#Disinfo2020

Our virtual conference #Disinfo2020 starts today. Are you ready?