Panagiotis Ntatzis

University of Cyprus: Educational seminar for students on disinformation and content verification practices

July 10, 2024 An educational seminar on the topic of “Disinformation and Content Verification Practices” took place on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at the University of Cyprus (UCY) in Nicosia. The event was aimed at high school students (aged 15 to 18) and was conducted within the context of the MedDMO and the 2024 UCY

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Disinformation narrative report around the wildfire in Northern Greece by Ellinika Hoaxes

This report highlights a disinformation narrative involving clips from border crossings on the double security fence located in the border region between Serbia and Hungary. These clips were used to mislead users into believing that the crossings take place in Evros’ border fence, the border region between Greece and Turkey. This work aimed to develop an understanding of how this disinformation narrative was spread and by whom.

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MedDMO – funded project presented at AAAI Conference in the US

June 20, 2024 Dr. Nikos Salamanos from the Cyprus University of Technology presented a research paper on detecting disinformation on X (formerly Twitter) at the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’24) in Buffalo, USA. This research is a collaboration between the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), IMDEA Networks Madrid, and LSTECH

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