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

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.

June 2025

16

The Paris Conference on AI & Digital Ethics

The Paris Conference is a cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral meeting platform welcoming academics from various disciplines and stakeholders in the development of digital technologies from the industry, civil society, and politics. This event will take place at the Sorbonne University.

17

Presenting vera.ai outcomes: How can AI help you with your daily work?

This session will focus on vera.ai tools and services, with the primary target audience being journalists, fact-checkers and other practitioners.

24

Presenting vera.ai outcomes: What are the AI models and methods powering detection tools?

This session is for academics, researchers, and scientists, and will present deep dives into research. Focus topics: text analysis, synthetic image/video detection and audio analysis, among others.

27

Conference: “Revisiting Disinformation: Critical Media Literacy Approaches”

The S.HI.E.L.D. vs Disinformation project is hosting the International Conference "Revisiting Disinformation: Critical Media Literacy Approaches" at the University Campus of Gallos in Rethymno, Crete, Greece, on June 27-28, 2025.

30

2025 Summer Course on European Platform Regulation

The third annual summer course on European Platform Regulation by the IViR-DSA Observatory will be held in Amsterdam from June 30 to July 4.

30

European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness

EWAF focuses on algorithmic fairness as a cornerstone of responsible technology, with the specific aim to showcase innovative European research. 

July 2025

September 2025

11

All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Summit

You can already fill out the interest form to attend the summit. The event will be held in Manhattan (New York).

18

Seminar: “Media Literacy and Democracy Education for Societal Resilience”

The conference will be highlighting the European Year of Digital Citizenship Education by Council of Europe. It will be held in Helsinki.

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.

23

IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival

Under the theme “Defending the Future of Free Media”, this year’s World Congress also marks IPI’s 75th anniversary.

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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