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From AI to foreign influence: How European fact-checkers are fighting disinformation The first conference of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCS) took place in Brussels, marking a significant milestone for European fact-checkers as they unite to tackle the rapidly evolv...

From AI to foreign influence: How European fact-checkers are fighting disinformation - Some takeaways from the first #EFCSNConference held in Brussels a few days ago ohmybox.info/from-ai-to-f...

Global fact-checkers battle harassment, threats, financial perils From India and South Korea to Croatia and North Macedonia, fact-checking organizations battling an ever-rising tide of misinformation in a major election year are buffeted by legal threats, harassment...

Who are the people the most dangerous for fact-checkers? Probably far-right parties, authoritarian regimes, neo-nazi groups... in the EU, some fact-checkers are regularly threatened and harassed #EFCSNConference - See Global fact-checkers battle harassment, threats... www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

🗣️ "The goal of Operation Overload is to use you, the fact-checkers, to amplify their narrative."

Today our CTO Amaury was in Brussels for the inaugural #EFCSNConference. He spoke to the fact-checking community about Operation Overload ( 🔎 checkfirst.network/operation-ov...).

Screens as Battlefields: Fact-Checkers’ Multidimensional Challenges in Debunking Russian-Ukrainian War Propaganda | Article | Media and Communication Laurence Dierickx, Carl-Gustav Lindén

Fact-checkers often face threats and harassment, leading to psychological strains that are sometimes too difficult to deal with, such as in the context of war propaganda, as we also highlighted in our study - "Screens as Battlefields" #EFCSNConference www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

“Global War Party,” “Second Front,” “Unprecedented election meddling” from the West, and other propaganda narratives dominating Georgian information space in the run-up to the key 2024 elections – EDM...

Are fact-checkers in Georgia under attack? Fears are high following elections probably won based on disinformation and conspiracy theories - “Global War Party,” “Second Front,” “Unprecedented election meddling” from the West, and other propaganda narratives edmo.eu/publications... #EFCSNConference

I don't remember where I read or heard about this, but while it's true that it's not possible to convince conspiracy theorists because you'll be accused of being part of it, the thing to do would be to play along:
- No one has ever walked on the moon
- It's true, there is no moon
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Countering misinformation through psychological inoculation The global spread of misinformation is one of the defining challenges of our era. This chapter reviews findings from an ongoing research program that …

Countering misinformation through psychological inoculation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #prebunking #research #EFCSNConference

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Long-term effectiveness of inoculation against misinformation: Three longitudinal experiments. #EFCSNConference #prebunking psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...

Russia targets Paris Olympics with deepfake Tom Cruise video Fake video uses AI-generated audio of the movie star to disparage the Olympic Committee

How Russia tried to disrupt the 2024 Paris Olympic Games #EFCSNConference www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

What is the Doppelganger operation? List of resources - EU DisinfoLab This page is designed to gather a timeline of the Doppelganger operation with a few elements collected from different reports.

What is the Doppelganger operation? List of resources www.disinfo.eu/doppelganger... #EFCSNConference

Operation Overload: how pro-Russian actors flood newsrooms with fake content and seek to divert their efforts - CheckFirst “Please Check”. More than 800 organisations, among which many media outlets have been flooded with emails and social media mentions urging them to verify dubious claims undermining Ukraine, France and...

Flooding newsrooms with fake content, another pro-Russian technique explained @checkfirst.network Operation Overload: how pro-Russian actors flood newsrooms with fake content and seek to divert their efforts checkfirst.network/operation-ov... #EFCSNConference

Interesting talk about AI and GAI at the #EFCSNConference in Brussels. During my fellowship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social I worked with colleagues on the possibilities for using GAI in fact-checking and results were presented at the #MISDOOMConference link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...