UK postdoc Ben Pelling attended the EDMO Annual Conference (25th and 26th May 2023) which convened policymakers, academics, regulators and journalists to discuss challenges around online disinformation and present some of the work being done to counter it.
Conference sessions and discussions on the current state of disinformation covered topics such as: AI and disinformation; Transnational responses; And disinformation and open-source intelligence. There were also presentations from academics, journalists and those working to tackle disinformation, covering: Research on disinformation and data access; Identifying Media Literacy interventions that really work; And sustainable models for independent fact-checking.
The Conference was also used as an opportunity to launch the new ‘EDMO Working Group for the Creation of an Independent Intermediary Body to Support Research on Digital Platforms’. The press release for this launch can be seen here.