Plenary sessions

• Opening of #Disinfo2025
• Interview with Nicolas Hénin & Waad Al-Kateab

Parallel sessions

Track 1: Disinfo Atlas

• (E)United in disinformation – Part 1
  • Agata Pyka:  Disinfo in Poland’s election
  • Max Bernhard: German elections under attack
  • Michal Trnka: Tracking Russian propaganda in the EU
• (E)United in disinformation – Part 2
  • Mirjana Jevtovic: Drones of information age 
  • Szilárd Teczár: Hungarian disinformation scene
• America, be kind, don’t rewind
• Disinformation as a service: how a Chinese infrastructure with possible ties to the CCP serves Chinese… and Russian interests

Track 2: From community to collective action

• Attack on healthcare systems and public services
  • Hamza Al-Kateab: Healthcare in conflict settings 
• Disinformation unlocks proliferation
  • Lukas Albrecht: Navigating diffuse maritime (dis)information settings 
  • Valeriia Hesse: Forecasting CBRN disinformation driven escalation risks 
  • Mariana Diaz Garcia: Institutional resilience against nuclear and radiological disinformation
• Building stronger resilience, from swords to pens
  • Stefke Teunisse: Resilience against digital cognitive influence
  • Olha Danchenkova: Cognitive security and the war of emotions 
• FIMI defenders in action
  • Inês Narciso: IO investigations in messaging platforms
  • Ben Shultz: A look at the disinformation research landscape, attacks on the field, and the strategies we use to defend our work
  • Katarina Klingová: FIMI-ISAC & its FIMI defenders

Track 3: Accountability

• The policy ketchup
  • Joe McNamee: Policy ketchup 
• Deterrence and enforcement
  • Camille Antunes: EU internet referral unit  
  • Joshua Segal: Time to tackle FIMI “say their name”
• Election integrity: challenge accepted
  • Niamh Hanafin: Supporting election integrity
• Fighting disinformation – too much sense or sensibility?
  • Christine Allan de Lavenne: US and EU approaches to Freedom of Expression are fundamentally different: Too different? What are the consequences?

Track 4: Inside the spin zone

• Science in danger
  • Jennifer Jones: Science and democracy under siege
  • Adriana Lamačková: Mis/disinformation on abortion: examples from Europe
• Not so artificial threats
• The usual suspects: Climate edition
  • Lindsey Gulden: The banality of working for fossil fuels 
  • Stephanie Hankey: The replaybook
  • Ana Romero Vicente: HEAT- a look at France, Germany, and the Netherlands
• Open mic: Designing resilience – collective solutions to protect disinformation research

Lunch & Learn

• OrdinAIry People: A Telegram network using generative AI to create political content targeting English and Russian speakers

Parallel sessions

Track 1: Disinfo Atlas

• Disinformation during conflict: exploring partnerships between platforms & conflict mediators to mitigate risks of violence
• From Russia, with…?
  • Sviatoslav Hnizdovskiy: The future of cognitive warfare
  • Alesya Sokolova: Russian media landscape
• Middle East: pushing back
  • Ahmad Primo: The flood of disinformation after Assad’s fall
• Mapping the Southeast and beyond
  • Miraj Ahmed Chowdhury: Dumb bots
  • Jen Aquino & Ryan Pronstroller: When journos + content creators work together
  • Lahiru Doloswala: Globalised disinformation Sri Lankans in a foreign war

Track 2: From community to collective action

• AI tools showcase for community
  • Valentin Porcellini: Vera.ai tools in the verification plugin
  • Stefan Voss: AI tools showcase for the community
• In Method we trust
  • Christoph Pfeufer: Detecting political bias in recommender systems on social media platforms
• It’s TTP time: Information sharing standards and doctrines
  • Rachele Gilman: TTPs and collaboration from theory to practice
  • Jermain Njemanze: OpenCTI for FIMI 
• Trendspotting
  • Alessio Baù: Fighting disinformation in our cities
  • Virginia Mahieu: Neurotech, AI & disinformation: risks on the horizon

Track 3: Accountability

• What do we do with data?
  • Sára Soľárová: Algorithmic auditing- a novel approach to platform and AI systems accountability
  • Nowmay Opalinski: Cartography as a tool to study FIMI
• Turning data into evidence
  • Shivika Sharma: Building digital accountability
  • Stéphane Duguin: CyberPeace Institute
• Defunded democracy: new revenue models for media
  • Einar Hålien: Reinvention of journalism – as a force for civilized societies
• Alt-Insert: how to provoke deshitification of our online experience
  • Maarten Schenk: Building a fact-check labeling service for Bluesky

Track 4: Inside the spin zone

• OSINT Reloaded: new and updated tools for investigating disinformation
  • Craig Silverman: OSINT reloaded
• Disinfo Today
  • Aleksandra Atanasova: The dormant danger
  • Rémy Gerbet: Predictive research on misinformation & propagation trajectories (PROMPT)
• The foreign influence we don’t talk about
  • Alden Wahlstrom: Direct dissemination tactics & precision targeted information operations
  • Jakub Śliż: Truth Africa
  • Pravin Prakash: Networked legitimacy: disinformation, hate spin, and the overlooked pathways of foreign influence
• The deception detox
  • Ruth Pérez Castro: Verified debates- a space where lying is not an option
  • Roman Shutov: Prebunking in practice

Lunch & Learn

• Protecting civil society from disinformation and cyber attacks

Plenary sessions

• Narratives of war, from Aleppo to Gaza
  • Hamza Al-Kateab: When grammar erases accountability; passive voice & ‘both sides’ language
• Democracy in distress: the European emergency response

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