Resources
Check First produces a variety of content, from articles to webinars and training. Below is a repository of our public resources, created during the execution of our various projects.
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EU DisinfoLab 2024 conference: our key takeaways from #Disinfo2024
In an ever-evolving digital landscape, EU DisinfoLab serves as a vital hub for our community of actors striving for a safer online environment. The civil society community, policymakers, platforms representatives and regulators gathered in Riga, Latvia, on October 9 and 10 for two days of discussions centered around all the aspects of disinformation.
Mastodon, the rise of the Fediverse
Mastodon, Fediverse, do you already feel lost just by using those 2 words which aren’t quite as new as you’d think? … Flashback
The Francophonie chooses CheckFirst again to run ODIL
CheckFirst is proud to have been chosen again to help run ODIL, the platform for French speaking initiatives fighting disinformation
CheckFirst to join COM-PRESS project
COM-PRESS aims at combating disinformation by equipping journalists with new image manipulation insights and detection methods.
Disinformation on Donbas is only a Google autocomplete away
An investigation to demonstrate how French speaking Belgians were hinted at searching for dubious sources when looking up the word “Donbass” in the Google search bar.
Replay: 22vlalapub, an analysis of political advertising on Meta, Google and Snapchat during French presidential election
We had the pleasure to disclose our findings on 1 September. Watch the replay!
2 years of CheckFirst
“We should work together for good and found a company!”. The exclamation came in between three people who hadn’t met in real life yet, but had spent countless hours fighting disinformation about COVID together during the first wave of the global pandemic.
22vlalapub: an analysis of political advertising on Meta, Google and Snapchat during French presidential election
During 4 months, Check First monitored political advertising using its tool 22vlalapub.fr. Using those data, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of the political advertising landscape on social media platforms during the 2022 French presidential elections.
The French information ecosystem put to test – a report on 2022 French Elections by the Online Election Integrity Watch Group
As a member of the Online Integrity Watch Group, Check First took part in the analysis of political advertising using its tool 22vlalapub
Webinar: An analysis of recommendation algorithms on YouTube against disinformation
On 9 June, Check First presented the findings of its first investigation in the CrossOver Project to the EDMO BELUX community.