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17 September. “Reject then launder”: Catching AI Models validating extremist narratives in crisis
EXPOSE! | AI safety filters block violent words, but do they stop extremist ideology? Through real-world case studies of frontier LLMs and social feed dynamics, experts from Factiverse and SimPPL expose the “Reject then Launder” pattern and share practical tools to audit AI vulnerabilities during crises.
Upcoming webinars
EXPOSE | In this session, BBC Monitoring’s Chief Analyst Vitaly Shevchenko shows how open-source verification exposes the Kremlin’s own media contradicting its official war narrative, using real cases from Belgorod, where Russian glide bombs meant for Ukraine have fallen on Russian soil.
EXPOSE! | AI safety filters block violent words, but do they stop extremist ideology? Through real-world case studies of frontier LLMs and social feed dynamics, experts from Factiverse and SimPPL expose the “Reject then Launder” pattern and share practical tools to audit AI vulnerabilities during crises.
Past webinars - watch the recordings!
AI DISINFO WATCH | Can European software built on cheap Chinese AI models be trusted?Join ASPI Analyst Alex Colville to break down how state propaganda is encoded into LLMs and what developers must do to defend global information integrity.
EVIDENCE & ENFORCEMENT | As one of the first private enforcement actions under the DSA, this webinar examines the landmark cases brought by DRI and the GFF against X over access to platform data under Article 40(12).
AI DISINFO WATCH | This webinar explores how AI-enabled disinformation is set to evolve, from persistent AI personas to coordinated campaigns manufacturing false public consensus, and debates possible responses including the proposal for an AI Influence Observatory to make these emerging threats more visible and accountable.
EVIDENCE & ENFORCEMENT | The DSA gives the European Commission exclusive enforcement powers over VLOPs and VLOSEs, while national authorities supervise other intermediaries. This creates a dependency and raises the question of Member State options if the Commission fails in its role.
Article 38 of the DSA requires platforms to offer a non-profiling version of their services. After Meta’s flawed implementation, Bits of Freedom took the case to court, and won, twice: what lessons can be drawn from this landmark case?
Ethical dilemmas are central to efforts to counter disinformation, particularly for journalists, educators, civic actors, and AI practitioners. Key challenges include balancing effective responses with fundamental rights, professional responsibilities, and the risks of unintended harm.
This webinar explores how FIMI actors exploit high-visibility cultural moments, from events like Eurovision to viral online controversies, to inject geopolitical narratives and shape public discourse.
What can Russian military medals and insignia reveal about intelligence operations? This webinar explores how OSINT investigations using publicly shared images helped uncover the structure and specialities of the FSB’s 16th Centre and the GRU’s Information Operations Troops.
A behind-the-scenes look at the European Democracy Resilience Network (EDRN) pilot, a joint initiative supporting civil society actors facing hybrid threats. The session shares key insights on protecting CSOs from disinformation, doxing, impersonation, and other digitally enabled attacks, and highlights why collaborative defence is essential.
This Community Insider webinar explores how civil society organisations contribute evidence under the DSA, drawing lessons from the X case to examine practical challenges, risks, and what effective engagement with the Commission looks like in enforcement proceedings.
Generative AI is reshaping online content creation and testing the foundations of EU platform regulation. As the Digital Services Act (DSA) distinguishes between hosting and creating content, AI systems that generate outputs raise new questions about liability, safe harbour protections, and their interaction with the AI Act.
This webinar unpacks the European Commission’s first-ever DSA non-compliance decision – fining X €120 million – examining the legal reasoning, key breaches identified, and what the landmark ruling means for civil society’s role in shaping DSA enforcement.
Artificial intelligence is shifting from content generation to relational interaction. As AI companions increasingly inform, adapt, and sustain emotional continuity, persuasion may move from visible content flows to private, trust-based human–AI relationships.
This webinar explores the “triangle of violence” by examining the relationship between content, victims, and audiences, showing how coordinated gendered disinformation and harassment accumulate to normalise abuse and push women out of public life.
In this Community Insider session, we introduce AgoraEU, a new programme that could finance research and investigations to counter disinformation in Europe, and shares proposals on how the current AgoraEU text could be improved and where efforts would be best focused to have an impact.
In this webinar, Jeremy Herry from the European Commission (Directorate-general for Climate Action) introduces their newly launched campaign #ClimateFactsMatter.
As AI-generated content becomes harder to tell apart from real information, understanding why some people are more vulnerable to misinformation matters more than ever, watch this to learn more!
Mainstream TV and radio they increasingly host misleading claims about climate shaping public perception. Watch the recording to understand how climate falsehoods reach millions, why they matter for democracy, and what can be done to counter them.
22 January 2025, 14:30-15:30 CET
This private webinar presents and discuss the findings of the report Building a common operational picture of FIMI: Using IMS to strengthen technical attribution and disruption.
Franco with glitter sunglasses. Mussolini dancing in a school corridor. Hitler celebrating like Cristiano Ronaldo. What looks like “just jokes” is, in reality, a pipeline of “pop fascism”, a disinformation strategy that makes extremist narratives feel harmless, funny… and increasingly acceptable, take a look!
How much disinformation do people truly see? In this session, we unveil the first SIMODS results, the first scientific measure of mis- and disinformation across platforms.
As the US steps back from information integrity, global exposure to manipulation grows. A new strategy is urgently needed to counter rising authoritarian influence.
In this session, we explore what “starting over” should look like, the hard lessons to confront, and the strategic choices needed to rebuild democratic resilience.
Behind Russia’s polished state messaging lies a vast monitoring apparatus: ANO Dialog. In this session we show how it works and why it represents a new model of state-controlled disinformation.
This session traces how history and archaeology have been manipulated to legitimise power, first by Nazi Germany and today by the Russian state.
In this webinar, Zuzanna Wojciak shows how TRIED draws on insights from the Deepfakes Rapid Response Force (DRRF) to provide a practical, sociotechnical framework that helps.
With the imminent entry into force of the delegated act on data access under the DSA, this webinar will give an overview on what is mandated and under what conditions, as well as a chance to ask questions and seek clarifications.
This webinar dives into the evolving Russian influence campaign known as Operation Overload, highlighting its use of AI, impersonation, and new tactics to spread propaganda and overwhelm fact-checkers and media across multiple platforms.
This webinar explores the EDMO report on how major platforms are meeting (or not) their commitments to combat disinformation under the updated Code of Practice.
In this session, we explore how the online manipulation market operates – who is selling what, to whom, and why.
In this session, we explore how the online manipulation market operates – who is selling what, to whom, and why.
This session explores Meta’s revenue-sharing practices with sanctioned entities, uncovering potential breaches and raising urgent questions about platform accountability.
Climate change is real, but so is the growing effort to distort the conversation around it. Join us to uncover harmful environmental agendas and tactics in France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
This session will explore the dynamics between disinformation and freedom of expression, focusing on the obligations of governments to address disinformation as a means of safeguarding the fundamental right to freedom of expression.
This webinar introduces practical, evidence-based strategies from OICD’s “Reclaiming Our Narratives” toolkit designed to counter IBD through positive identity expansion rather than direct confrontation.
What happens when online disinformation, hate speech, and political rage spill into the streets? Kamila Koronska from the University of Amsterdam explores how coordinated messaging on X and Facebook helped ignite the 2024 UK riots.
From AI-generated greenwashing to transatlantic denial campaigns, climate disinformation is mutating fast. Join us as top experts from Global Witness and Ripple Research expose the biggest threats of 2025, and what we can still do about them.
After defining Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) and exploring responses to this growing threat, the European External Action Service (EEAS) takes a bold methodological leap in its latest report that we are bringing to you in an exciting EU DisinfoLab webinar.
This session examines how foreign information manipulation influences public perception and democratic resilience in France. It explores key narratives related to recent conflicts and analyse their impact based on a new report by the Fondation Descartes.
In this session, Sam Jeffers will use tools and dashboards developed by Who Targets Me to explore how political advertising campaign spending, targeting, and messaging are tracked across platforms.
This webinar examines the intersection of disinformation campaigns and real estate exploitation in occupied Cyprus, specifically focusing on the “ghost city” of Varosha/Famagusta.
Join us for a session to unpacks the emerging concept of LLM grooming – a novel strategy to manipulate large language models (LLMs) for foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) purposes.
Join us for an insider’s look at how the European Commission is putting the Digital Services Act (DSA) into action. Ľuboš Kukliš, Lead on Information Integrity for the DSA framework at the Commission, will share the latest developments around the DSA’s implementation – specifically in the area of information integrity.
Meta and Google continue to host ads promoting questionable health products across Europe. Reset Tech investigation uncovered a long-running campaign that uses fake endorsements from actual doctors to sell unverified supplements.
How does the work of fact-checking organisations influence X’s Community Notes? This session explores their role as a source, based on an analysis by Fundación Maldita.es of all visible and non-visible Community Notes created on X during 2024.
This webinar will explore the paper “Melodies of Malice” by the GNET that delves into how online far-right communities leverage AI platforms to transform the landscape of music propaganda and spread disinformation across mainstream platforms.
27 February 2025, 14:30 – 15:30 CET
Gender and Identity Disinformation (GID) is a growing and sophisticated form of information manipulation that targets women, gender-diverse individuals, and LGBT+ communities to undermine democratic values and human rights, and to further polarise societies.
20 February 2025, 14:30 – 15:30 CET
How do false or misleading narratives about climate change spread across social media platforms? This webinar explores case studies, including the LA wildfires and East Coast hurricanes, that demonstrate how mis- and disinformation can cross over into other risk areas – hate, harassment, health misinformation, and ultimately violence.
Social media is changing fast, with open protocols and new products emerging and bringing about the promise of change. This session will explore opening the door to public interest social media infrastructure and a much healthier information environment.
In this workshop, we dive into the mechanisms and frameworks for measuring the impact of information campaigns, particularly in the context of countering disinformation.
In this webinar, our guests will describe some of the organised disinformation campaigns that targeted the Romanian social media space ahead of the presidential elections in November 2024, using influencers to manipulate algorithms in favour of specific candidates.
This session examines the extent and nature of Russian online influence operations surrounding the 2024 EU elections.
Join us for this session about identity-based disinformation, FIMI, and open source investigations.
Join us for this session on the disinformation landscape of Malta and Cyprus.
Join us for this session on building resilience against foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) and discover key lessons from the Taiwan’s January 2024 elections.
Join the discussion on the legal perspective of AI and disinformation, with Noémie Krack (KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law – imec) and Raquel Miguel Serrano (EU DisinfoLab).
This session will discuss efforts in Latvia to educate local public authorities on countering disinformation.
This session delves into the latest advancements in synthetic media detection, with a strong focus on the innovative work conducted within the veraAI project.
This session delves into the latest advancements in synthetic media detection, with a strong focus on the innovative work conducted within the veraAI project.
11 July, 14:30 – 15:30 CEST
Beatriz Marin Garcia, from the European External Action Service, and Clément Briens, from Recorded Future, present their main findings on a new FIMI operation involving the creation and dissemination of pro-Russian content.
In an increasingly interconnected world, brands are more vulnerable than ever to disinformation campaigns that can tarnish their reputation and erode consumer trust. In this session, we explore with Rafi Mendelsohn, VP of Cyabra, the evolving landscape of brand disinformation, uncovering the tactics used to target companies on social media and the profound implications for their reputation and market position.
What are the capabilities of state-of-the-art AI in generating disinformation? What about the innovative AI technologies being developed to detect and combat it? Kalina Bonthcheva from the University of Sheffield talks about the challenges and opportunities presented by generative AI in the context of disinformation production, spread, and detection.
Operation Overload uncovers a concerted effort to target fact-checkers, newsrooms, and researchers worldwide, depleting their resources and exploiting credible information ecosystems to propagate the Kremlin’s political agenda.
13 June, 14:30 – 15:30 CEST
Social media platforms have introduced their own monetisation rules establishing who and what can generate revenue through their services. Despite the significant sums of money at play, there is very little transparency and oversight.
This session with Duncan Meissel from Clean Creative explores the intersection of advertising and sustainability. Join us to learn what the ‘The F List’ is, the dangers of fossil fuel marketing and PR with misleading claims about climate change, and much more.
In this webinar, Sophie Murphy Byrne addresses the risks that artificial intelligence technologies pose in terms of electoral disinformation, looking at recent electoral events (e.g. India or South Korea will hold elections days before the webinar and Mexico and the European Union shortly after).
In this webinar, Marcus Bösch, Hamburg University, discusses disinformation, propaganda, and TikTok.
This webinar presents the results of a research conducted by Margot Fulde-Hardy on foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns targeting elections from 2014 to 2024.
In our webinar on 25 April, Craig Silverman, national reporter at ProPublica, will make a presentation based on his recent publication “Key tools and approaches for using AI in OSINT and investigations”, where he delves into available tools based on AI-technologies that can be useful for digital investigations, and explains how researchers can use them with the proper approach and expectations.
In this webinar Devin Bahceci from the Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) and the Information Integrity and Anti-Disinformation at the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC) shares his insights on how platforms are stepping up enforcement of climate change disinformation action.
The European Commission is holding a consultation on its draft delegated act on the new right of access to data under the DSA. This webinar discusses this consultation with Silvia Merisio, the Commission official responsible.
Chinese private firms are seen as aggressively managing foreign influence operations on behalf of the Chinese government. CitizenLab found more than 120 websites posing as local news, and channeling targeted attacks to Beijing’s critics, while in fact being run by a PR firm in Shenzhen.
This webinar with Olaf Steenfadt and Konrad Bleyer-Simon from Global Media Registry will discuss ‘Unique Media ldentifiers’: Why are they needed? What can they look like?
In this webinar, Julian Jaursch from Stiftung Neue Verantwortung dives into the role of Digital Services Act Coordinators in enforcing the DSA. How will the newly nominated coordinators ensure the effectiveness of the DSA in promoting online safety and transparency?
Our webinar on 14 March, featuring Guillaume Kuster, CEO of Check First, offers an in-depth analysis of the Finnish far right’s presence and visibility on social media platforms in the lead-up to the country’s presidential elections in February 2024.
In our webinar on 5 March, DFRLab’s Roman Osadchuk guides us through an investigation that uncovered the largest information operation on TikTok to date pushing disinformation about Ukraine.
In this webinar, Recorded Future’s Brian Liston shares an overview of their new research into the evolution of the Russia-linked malign influence network called Doppelganger.
In our webinar on 20 February, Cécile Simmons, Research Manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), shares with us her insights on how gendered abuse and disinformation threaten women’s rights and democracy.
This webinar uncovers the intricate web of deception woven by EU/US-sanctioned oligarch Ilan Shor and his pro-Russian party in their relentless bid to sabotage Moldova’s aspirations for EU membership.
This webinar dove into the intricate world of disinformation as we unveiled the findings of our new comparative study that sheds light on trends and idiosyncrasies across the diverse European disinformation landscapes.
Join us on Monday 3 July (14:00 CEST) for our next webinar “Polluting the truth about climate change” with esteemed speakers in the field!
“The disinformation landscape across Europe”, a webinar on 28 June delved into our country factsheets highlighting the disinformation landscape across EU Member States.
On 20 April, Alexandre Alaphilippe, Executive Director, EU DisinfoLab & Amaury Lesplingart, CTO, CheckFirst, will present the OSINT Guidelines to be applied to public interest investigations.
Webinar on 13 April on “FIMI: Towards a European redefinition of foreign interference” with Nicolas Hénin, Researcher at EU DisinfoLab.
Webinar on March 21 with #ShePersisted to present the findings from their “Monetizing Misogyny” study, and the role of media in spreading online hate and gendered disinformation in Italy & Hungary.
Webinar on March 9 with the Center for Countering Digital Hate about its “Toxic Twitter” study, and how Twitter generates millions in ad revenue by bringing back banned accounts.
Alicia Wanless, Director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at CEIP, shared during this webinar how to foster a collaborative approach to researching and protecting the information environment.
Webinar on September 15 with Ben Nimmo & Raquel Miguel Serrano on how to measure the risks and impacts of disinformation.
Replay of a webinar co-hosted by EU DisinfoLab and French start-up Tremau about content moderation for smaller players with the upcoming DSA.
On July 5, the co-authors of the DSA User-Guide answered questions on the DSA tools, rights and application in the fight against disinformation.
In light of the Trilogue negotiations, we reflected on the importance of a strong redress mechanism in the Digital Services Act with some exceptional guests. This online discussion featured Frances Haugen, former product manager at Facebook and Whistleblower, and Emma Winberg, the widow of James Le Mesurier, who was a co-founder of the Syrian rescue group the White Helmets, and director of the non-profit MaydayRescue Foundation.
We are pleased to invite you to our next webinar with Avaaz, the global campaigning and research organisation. We will talk about fresh revelations surrounding Facebook’s enforcement policies, the US elections and the implications for regulating disinformation in the EU.
On 29 June, EU DisinfoLab held a webinar with Tristan Mendès France where he spoke about RiPOST – an intiative designed to counter false information and hate speech by using social media and search engines.
On 27 May, EU DisinfoLab held a webinar with ERGA Board Member Lubos Kuklis where he discussed the key takeaways from ERGA’s assessment.
On 2 June, EU DisinfoLab held a webinar with Guillaume and Tim from Journalistes Solidaires where they detailed how they set up a spontaneous and innovative open newsroom born to fight COVID-19 disinformation.
On the 16th October, EU DisinfoLab hosted its monthly webinar with Michael Bossetta – who is a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University. His research interests centre around social media platforms, their use by politicians and citizens during elections, and their exploitation by governments to conduct cyber espionage.
A summary article of EU DisinfoLab’s webinar held on the 19th September 2019 with Fakey.
On 20th June, EU DisinfoLab hosted its monthly webinar.
Summary article of the EU Disinfo Lab Webinar held on 17 April 2019 with Global Disinformation Index.
Did you know that personalisation algorithms influence what you chose yesterday, what you will choose today, and what you will choose tomorrow?
Have you ever wondered about the nature of information that social media like Facebook is promoting through personalisation algorithms?
This article is the summary of a webinar hosted by DisinfoLab on 27/02 with Johnny Ryan, Chief Policy and Industry Relations officer at Brave.
Advertising placement can be a source of revenue for websites purveyors of disinformation.