Our Mission
The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) brings together fact-checkers, media literacy experts, and academic researchers to understand and analyse disinformation, in collaboration with media organisations, online platforms and media literacy practitioners.
EDMO will deploy a platform to support the work of a multidisciplinary community with expertise in the field of online disinformation. EDMO will contribute to a deeper understanding of disinformation relevant actors, vectors, tools, methods, dissemination dynamics, targets, and impact on society.
EDMO Activities
- Facilitate the identification of relevant and trending news content published and shared online and allow joint fact-checking activities
- Facilitate the verification of online content including deepfakes also through the use of machine learning and natural language processing tools
- Expedite fact-checking activities and peer-review of fact-checks, also with the support of real-time translation tools
- Facilitate the production and online distribution of news articles resulting from fact-checking activities
- Extraction of graph representation
- Community detection
- Identification of key-players of an input graph based on relevant indicators
- Tracking and visualisation of the path travelled by a specific news piece through sharing, mentioning, retweeting, and other forms of information forwarding in social media
- Training activities on topics related to disinformation, open to all relevant stakeholders, including fact-checking actors, researchers, journalists
- Webinars and face-to-face meetings on the functions and tools of the EDMO secure online platform
- Conferences and events
- Mapping of fact-checking activities in Europe
- Searchable directories aggregating fact-checks and media literacy material from external repositories
- Facilitation of joint fact-checking activities and exchange of best-practices
- Creation of a fact-checking digital community
- Mapping of European academic activities studying the disinformation phenomenon in various disciplines
- Repository with relevant peer-reviewed scientific literature
- Repository of policy papers and media literacy material
- Calls for research proposals to access data of online platforms
- Cooperation with relevant Observatories to report on trends in the online media ecosystem
- Support to public authorities, including ERGA, in the monitoring of the policies, put in place by online platforms to limit the spread and the impact of disinformation
- Report to the European Commission about main trends of the disinformation phenomenon
Who leads this effort?
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