Meeting the challenges of cyber disinformation

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Remember when you could wander around the internet, fairly confident that what you were looking at was probably reliable? Over the years it seems that information is becoming less and less trustworthy and with deepfakes and biased algorithms it’s starting to feel like the disinformation might be around every corner.

Here to help us navigate the maze are three researchers, who have all received support from EU science funding:

Owen Conlan, is a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics.He is also co-director of the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities. Owen is very interested in user control over personalised AI-driven systems.

Joana Gonçalves-Sá is a researcher both at the Nova Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics and in the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, Lisbon, where she leads the Social Physics and Complexity research group. Her focus in on human and algorithmic biases, using fake news as a model system.

Marián Šimko is an expert researcher at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies in Slovakia. Marián focuses on natural language processing, information extraction, low-resource language processing and the interpretability of neural models.