The objective of the Media Literacy Workshop organized by Luiss Data Lab and T6 Ecosystem was to accompany the students in a process of acquiring awareness of the various strategies for identifying and responding to fake news.
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Nowadays, technology and especially social media, have accelerated the spread of disinformation.
The growth of social media and the availability of social media data has opened up new opportunities for researchers and journalists.
On September 14th 2019, SOMA will participate in the Panel ‘The Digital Age of Journalism: Data, New Tools and Copyrights’, organized by the Advanced Media Institute.
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.
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.