EU DisinfoLab 2025 Annual Conference
15-16 October, Ljubljana, Slovenia
This year, we received over 200 proposals for topics, workshops, and presentations – three times the number from last year. Thank you all for your interest and your willingness to be part of this community!
#Disinfo2025 spanned two full conference days, with an optional pre-conference day for those who wanted to dig deeper before the main event began. You can find an overview of the programme below, and the detailed version as a PDF here.
Programme overview
Day 0 - 14 October
14:00 – 18:00
Pre-conference workshops
- How to protect an election, by Protection Group International
- Disinformation and Information Integrity Situation in Sri Lanka and the Indo-Pacific Region, by Internews and the EEAS
19:00 – 21:00
Informal gathering
Day 1 - 15 October
09:00 – 09:30
Opening of #Disinfo2025
09:30 – 10:15
Interview with Nicolas Hénin & Waad Al Kateab
11:00 – 12:00
Parallel sessions
Track 1:
Disinfo Atlas
- (E)United in disinformation – Part 1
Track 2:
From community to collective action
- Attack on healthcare systems and public services
Track 3:
Accountability
- The policy ketchup
Track 4:
Inside the spin zone
- Science in danger
12:50 – 13:20
Lunch & Learn
- OrdinAIry People: A Telegram network using generative AI to create political content targeting English and Russian speakers
13:30 – 17:00
Parallel sessions
Track 1:
Disinfo Atlas
- (E)United in disinformation – Part 2µ
- “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
- Disinformation unlocks proliferation
- Building stronger resilience, from swords to pens
- FIMI defenders in action
Track 3:
Accountability
- Deterrence and enforcement
- Election integrity: challenge accepted
- Fighting disinformation – too much sense or sensibility?
Track 4:
Inside the spin zone
- Not so artificial threats
- The usual suspects: Climate edition
- Open mic: Designing resilience – collective solutions to protect disinformation research
19:00 – 21:00
Walking tour & drinks
Day 2 - 16 October
09:00 – 12:30
Parallel sessions
Track 1:
Disinfo Atlas
- Disinformation during conflict: exploring partnerships between platforms & conflict mediators to mitigate risks of violence
- From Russia, with…?
- Middle East: pushing back
Track 2:
From community to collective action
- AI tools showcase for community
- In Method we trust
- It’s TTP time: Information sharing standards and doctrines
Track 3:
Accountability
- What do we do with data?
- Turning data into evidence
- Defunded democracy: new revenue models for media
Track 4:
Inside the spin zone
- OSINT Reloaded: new and updated tools for investigating disinformation
- Disinfo Today
- The foreign influence we don’t talk about
12:50 – 13:20
Lunch & Learn
- Protecting civil society from disinformation and cyber attacks
13:50 – 14:50
Parallel sessions
Track 1:
Disinfo Atlas
- Mapping the Southeast and beyond
Track 2:
From community to collective action
- Trendspotting
Track 3:
Accountability
- Alt-Insert: how to provoke deshitification of our online experience
Track 4:
Inside the spin zone
- The deception detox
15:30 – 16:55
Plenary sessions
- Narratives of war, from Aleppo to Gaza
- Democracy in distress: the European emergency response
17:00 – 17:15
Closing
tracks
To reflect the diversity and volume of submissions, this year’s programme will feature four parallel tracks. This will allow us to showcase a wider range of voices, formats, and topics.
This track explores how disinformation, foreign influence, and security threats manifest across various geographical, cultural and political contexts. Sessions will analyse regional case studies covering Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East, examining evolving tactics and countermeasures, offering insights into how disinformation operates within specific political, cultural and social environments.
From AI-powered troll farms and encrypted platforms in Russia, to electoral interference in Europe, cross-border propaganda infrastructures in Africa and Asia, and influence operations in the Middle East, the track spotlights both emerging threats and grassroots resilience. Through global case studies and insights into national experiences, sessions in this track examine the dynamic interplay between domestic vulnerabilities and transnational influence campaigns.
This track explores how investigative communities, civil society organisations and strategic actors develop and apply practical methodologies to build resilience and respond effectively to information manipulation and digital threats.
With a focus on high-risk and crisis environments, it examines approaches to psychological preparedness, legal risks, and operational coordination in the face of evolving disinformation tactics. The sessions will highlight community-driven models for collective response, tools for scenario-based planning and simulation, and innovative uses of AI to anticipate and counter digital interference.
From threats targeting healthcare systems and public services to the challenges of encrypted communication spaces, the track promotes practical, inclusive, and data-driven strategies that enable communities to effectively counter foreign manipulation and interference (FIMI). Through real-world case studies and methodological insights, it aims to equip participants with frameworks for preparedness, collaboration and strategic responses.
This track unpicks the role of digital platforms and evolving technologies in enabling disinformation and undermining democratic institutions in Europe. As authoritarian regimes intensify their programmes of manipulation of public discourse, they find, at least, wilfully unwitting allies in platforms whose business models reward amplification over accountability.
We will examine the regulatory responses taking shape across the EU, the structural challenges of platform governance, and the influence of algorithms and AI on information flows. With Europe at the forefront of efforts to defend democratic integrity, this track will spotlight how law, research, and public pressure can work together to disrupt disinformation ecosystems before it’s too late. The challenge is urgent – but not insurmountable, if we act with clarity and purpose.
This track takes a fresh, unfiltered look at some of the most pressing challenges in the disinformation landscape. Through the voices of those who confront these realities firsthand, we will uncover hidden dynamics, reveal how old falsehoods are resurfacing in new digital forms, and spark debates around the ethics and impacts of emerging technologies.
We will uncover foreign interference that often flies under the radar, investigate the forces shaping public trust on issues like science, and spotlight the insiders exposing how entrenched industry players fuel climate disinformation from behind the scenes. We’ll also dive into not so artificial threats, where AI supercharges the spread of low-cost synthetic propaganda, proving that this is no artificial problem at all, but a very real and accelerating danger to our information ecosystems.
Alongside these exposures, we will highlight the critical role fact-checkers play in building resilience against deception, and explore practical ways to strengthen public immunity to false narratives. And because knowing how to fight back is just as important as knowing what we’re up against, this track also features hands-on training in new and lesser-known investigative tools—free resources that every researcher should add to their arsenal.
Enter the spin zone: prepare to confront hidden agendas, dissect evolving threats, and equip yourself with strategies and skills to push back against disinformation in all its forms.
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