What a ride these last three months have been! From May to this date in July 2019, we toured around Europe and even got to South Africa, spreading our message upon the need to fight disinformation. Yet, the highlights of this period were the launch of our two (2) excellence centers in Denmark and Italy.
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SOMA project coordinator, Nikos Sarris, Head of the Innovation Lab in Athens Technology Center (ATC), along with Anja Bechmann, Professor of Media Studies and Director…
A few weeks before the recent European elections Huffington Post Greece gave us the opportunity to speak about the SOMA Observatory initiative against disinformation. SOMA…
Is it safe to judge the popularity of a political party based on the number of its Twitter followers? Probably not. Following BuzzFeed’s article regarding…
22 May: Social Science One: Request for Proposals for Fast Access to CrowdTangle and Ad Library Data
A year ago, founders of Social Science One, Gary King and Nathaniel Persily developed a new model of industry-academic partnerships and began a collaboration with Facebook to…
The European Commission’s Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography has just released a dedicated section on migration in Europe on IOM’s Global Migration Data Portal.
The official research center for SOMA in Northern Europe was officially opened at a high-level workshop, where top disinformation research was presented by researchers from…
These past few months, disinformation kept the European Observatory busy. Since September 2018 it has been an amazing journey; from attending events and conferences about…
Nowadays, disinformation and fake news have created a significant interest in raising news literacy among people. From educators to tech companies, there is a solid…
As a follow up to our first webinar with Eurostat on the use of its services in fact-checking, we would like to inform you that…