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

April 2023

03

Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Day

Join these online sessions organized by Poynter on April 3rd and 4th, right after International Fact-Checking Day.

04

The digital mob and its enablers: Gendered disinformation and online abuse against women in politics in India

Register now for the launch of ShePersisted's upcoming case study to learn more about the patterns, impact and modus operandi of gendered disinformation in India on April 4th.

18

Open the black box of algorithms

A deep dive into ECAT's work

20

Webinar: making fact-checks work

What’s the best way to make your fact-check work?

26

Information Governance and Institutional Trust in Digital Societies: Lessons Learned, Unlearned, and Emerging Best Practices

The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) is pleased to announce its event: Information Governance and Institutional Trust in Digital Societies: Lessons Learned, Unlearned, and Emerging Best Practices.

May 2023

10

Who is lying now? How to Identify and Counter Disinformation

Welcome to an online workshop on innovative approaches to media literacy, disinformation, and citizen participation.

31

Workshop: Open Source Intelligence and Investigative Journalism

Tools, Tips, and Best Practices with Roman Hoefner.

June 2023

12

MAD’23 at ACM ICMR 2023

2nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’23) organized with the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ACM ICMR 2023).

July 2023

August 2023

26

Infodemics Pandemics Summer School

The Infodemics Pandemics Summer School (IPSS) is an 8-day interdisciplinary school focused on the feedback loop between pandemics and information dissemination.

September 2023

13

1st International Workshop on Disinformation and Toxic Content Analysis (DiTox 2023)

In conjunction with the 4th biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023) to be held in Vienna, Austria in September 2023

October 2023

11

EU Disinfo Lab 2023 conference

Save the Date! EU DisinfoLab's 2023 Annual Conference is Coming to Krakow, Poland!

About us

We empower the fight against disinformation. Check First is a software and methodologies company founded by a developer and two journalists. We focus on creating the best tools and practices for the peculiar job of countering and monitoring fakes and influence campaigns, and gain time in the process by fostering collaboration. Our best asset is the complementarity of our founding team, making us approach problems in a comprehensive and innovative way.

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