Events

We regularly participate in events and webinar to shed the light on our work and projects, together with partners, NGO, policy makers, journalists and other stakeholders tackling disinformation. Here are every details about our agenda, but also upcoming and past disinformation related events from our partners.

Events

December 2024

03

Conversation: Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Privacy

Julie Brill, Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft, and Aileen Nielsen, Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, will discuss the evolving landscape of privacy regulations both in the United States and globally.

04

Webinar-Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is hosting a discussion on the current state of fake news online on 4 December at 12:30.

05

Facilitating Constructive Dialogue Workshop – Combating Online Toxic Speech

The two-day workshop will be held at the TUM Think Tank (Munich) in cooperation with the Bavarian Ministry of Justice, Das NETTZ, ISD Germany, the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) and the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for New Media (BLM).

06

OSINT Festival

The OSINT Festival returns to the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris on 6 and 7 December 2024.

09

Online event-Enhancing Investigations with the ObSINT Guidelines

Join our CTO Amaury and SANS institute researcher Inês Narciso for a workshop on the ObSINT guidelines on 9 December.

January 2025

30

Online meeting-AI for Regulators: Problem solver, or problem creator?

Mark your calendars for 30 January 2025 for the next online meeting of the IIC Legal Counsel Forum.

February 2025

24

RightsCon 25

The 13th edition of RightsCon will take place in Taipei and online from 24-27 February 2025.

28

Voices, European Festival of Journalism and Media Literacy

The second edition of the festival will be held in Zagreb at the Museum of Contemporary Art on 28 February - 1 March 2025.

April 2025

10

AlgoSoc International Conference 2025

It will take place in Amsterdam.

23

Cambridge Disinformation Summit 2025

From 23-25 April 2025, the conference will be held at King's College, Cambridge, UK.

May 2025

22

Dataharvest: The European Investigative Journalism Conference

Dataharvest – The European Investigative Journalism Conference is a meeting point where networks are established and nurtured, data and documents shared, cross-border projects conceived and teams established. The conference days are all about learning, inspiration and getting some work done. 22-25 May 2025.

October 2025

15

Disinfo2025

Diana Wallis, President of the EU DisinfoLab, has announced that the 2025 edition of the annual conference will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 15-16 October 2025.

About us

Check First is a leading Finnish software and methodologies company, spearheading adversarial research techniques. We believe that everyone should be able to understand how and why content is presented to them. We advocate for online clarity and accountability, building solutions to attain this goal. Partnering with leading institutions, regulators, NGOs and educators, we aim at curbing the spread of disinformation and foreign influence manipulations.

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