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

🗣️ "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...).

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...