Live elements will be hosted at the following times:
Friday October 16: From 09:00(ET)/14:00(BST) to 14:30(ET)/19:30(BST)
Saturday October 17: From 10:00(ET)/15:00(BST) to 14:30(ET)/19:30(BST)
Talk Stage sessions and presentations
KEYNOTES
- Meeyoung Cha: Emotion and misinformation in times of public health crisis [tentative title]
- Claire Wardle: Countdown to US Election 2020: the impact of misinformation on voting, election coverage and the final result
PANELS
- How do we make online news systems trustworthy? Jonathan Stray (moderator), Mandy Jenkins, Ashish Jaiman, Patricia Lopez, Antonio Teixeria
- How can we address the ‘community’ in solutions for online public health? Julie Levison (moderator), Sarah Hess, Kara Laney, Ifeoma Ozoma, Leila Zia
COVID-19 AND COMMUNICATION
- Fabiana Zollo: Digital information and social dynamics: A polarized context of narratives and tribes
- Emily Saltz and Claire Leibowicz: Understanding Americans’ divisive reactions to fact-checking labels during COVID-19
- Meeyoung Cha, Chiyoung Cha, Karandeep Singh,Gabriel Lima, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Juhi Kulshrestha, Onur Varol: Insights Learnt from a Misinformation Study: COVID-19 Infodemic Attacks Vulnerable Nations the Most
- Nicola Aitken: Bad information in crises: how can we be better prepared?
THE CHALLENGES OF MANIPULATED MEDIA AND DEEP FAKES
- Nicholas Diakopoulous: Confronting the Ethical Implications of Synthetic Media
- Cristian Canton Ferrer, Sam Gregory: Manipulated media: detection and mitigation. What to prioritize and who to prioritize?
- Claire Leiboweicz, Emily Saltz: Why taking action on manipulated media requires diverse stakeholders
- Rebecca Skippage, Alistair Coleman, Olga Robinson, Shayan Sardarizadeh: Disinformation in the Covid-19 crisis: How BBC News faced the pandemic fake news head-on
- Sam Gregory: “Ticks or It Didn’t Happen”: Ensuring emerging authenticity infrastructure helps, not hurts, global human rights and free expression
FACT-CHECKING
- Baybars Örsek: Fact-checking as a tool to build trust in the age of misinformation
- Sarah Samwel: Faking Facts: The Case of FactCheckArmenia.com
- Paolo Papotti, Immanuel Trummer: Fact checking Statistical Claims
- Christine De Kock, Georgi Karadzhov, Andreas Vlachos, Tom Stafford: Fact-checking as a conversation
BIAS, POLARIZATION, PROPAGANDA
- Omar Wasow: Protests and Media Framing in 1960s and Today
- Pascal Crowe: Who Do They Think We Are? UK political parties, profiling, and the law
- Mohsen Mosleh: Inaccurate and biased information on social networks
- Pamela Bilo Thomas, Tim Weninger: Deploying a Media Literacy Intervention: a Case Study in Indonesia
In-Depth Stage sessions and presentations
EVALUATING THE NEWS
- Emma Lurie, Eni Mustafaraj: `Highly Partisan’ and `Blatantly Wrong’: Analyzing News Publishers Critiques of Google’s Reviewed Claims
- Maurice Jakesch: How Partisan Crowds Affect News Evaluation
- Jérémie Rappaz and Panayiotis Smeros: News Teller — Investigating the Media Landscape at Scale
TRUST, BIAS, AND DECEPTION
- Xiaofan Li, Andrew B. Whinston: Discussions on dynamic deception
- Wen Chen, Diogo Pacheco, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer: Neutral Bots Reveal Political Bias on Social Media
- Balázs Bodó: Mediated Trust: A Theoretical Framework to Address the Trustworthiness of Technological Trust Mediators
COMMUNICATION, LITERACY, AND CONTEXT
- Ben Kaiser, Jerry Wei, Elena Lucherini, Kevin Lee, J. Nathan Mathias, Jonathan Mayer: Creating Disinformation Warnings That Work
- Sungkyu Park, Sungwon Han, Jeongwook Kim, Mir Majid Molaie, Hoang Dieu Vu, Karandeep Singh, Jiyoung Han, Wonjae Lee, Meeyoung Cha: Risk Communication in Asian Countries: COVID-19 Discourse on Twitter
- Tommy Shane: Vaccine data voids: what it means for platforms, reporters and fact checkers
GENERATED MEDIA
- Polychronis Charitidis, Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Symeon Papadopoulos: Investigating the impact of preprocessing and prediction aggregation on the DeepFake detection task
- Danae Tsampouraki, Luca Cuccovillo, Ruben Bouwmeester, Patrick Aichroth: From Rocket-Science to Journalism
- Tal Schuster: Preventing misinformation in the era of GPT-3
FACT-CHECKING AT SCALE
- Gianluca Demartini: The Role of Crowdsourcing in Fighting Online Misinformation
- Dominik Stammbach, Elliott Ash: e-FEVER: Explanations and Summaries for Automated Fact Checking
MODELING AND CLASSIFYING
- Umme Ammara, Hassan Bukhari, Junaid Qadir: Analyzing Misinformation Through The Lens of Systems Thinking
- Liqiang Wang, Xiaoyu Shen, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum: Cross-domain Learning for Classifying Propaganda in Online Contents
- Elena Kochina, Maria Liakata, Arkaitz Zubiaga:The Synergy between Stance Classification and Rumour Verification
- Jarred Allen, Cindy Lay, George Montanez: A Castro Consensus: Understanding the Role of Dependence in Consensus Formation