The aim of this conference is to connect fact-checking organisations, journalists and academia to share experiences and challenges.
Disinformation, conspiracy theories, hoaxes, cheap-fakes or deep-fakes; the information pollution evolves and new and stronger strategies are needed to deal with it. Journalists and fact-checkers have to work in a greater complex context, shaped not only by the boundless possibilities of Artificial Intelligence but also strained by political pressure, online harassmet or even judicial persecution.
This is a mutual learning activity on how to reassess the importance of truth and pluralistic environments, but also on how to ensure quality journalism and fact-checkers’s guidance and safety.
The aim of this conference is to connect fact-checking organisations, journalists and academia to share experiences and challenges.
Pol Morillas, Director, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
How can information pollution be reduced? How can independent journalism be protected? What are the systemic weaknesses threatening quality journalism in the European Union? What is disinformation and what amplified propaganda?
Eduardo Suárez,Head of Editorial, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
Carme Colomina, Senior Research Fellow on Disinformation, EU and Global Politics, CIDOB
Laura Cervi, Doctor of Political Sciences and Journalism Professor, UAB
Lorenzo Consoli, Brussels’ correspondent and former president of the Brussels International Press Association
David Block, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Author of Post-Truth and Political Discourse
Moderated by Montserrat Rigall, Artificial Intelligence Researcher, RTVE, and member of the 'IVERES: Identification, Verification and for the detection of false information with AI
Followed by a debate between all the speakers and invited guests.
What are the pseudomedia? How are press standards ensured? And how can the freedom of the media be protected? Regulation or self regulation? How to protect fact-checkers from harassment and coordinated attacks? How is the relation of journalists and fact-checkers with tech platforms?
Carlos Hernández-Echevarría, Head of Public Policy and Institutional Development, Maldita.es
Elda Brogi, Member of EDMO, European Digital Media Observatory; Professor, EUI Centre for Media Pluralism
Jorge Tuñón, Lecturer, University Carlos III of Madrid and Jean Monnet Chair. Author of Europa frente al Brexit, el populismo y la desinformación
Patrícia Ventura Pocino, PhD in Communication, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, and Communications Consultant
Moderated by Lorenzo Marini, Cofounder, Verificat
Followed by a debate between all the speakers and invited guests
Carme Colomina, Senior Research Fellow, CIDOB
