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Advancing Research on Disinformation and Digital Manipulation: The University of Urbino at two Key Conferences in Brazil VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!

In October 2025, veraAI project members based at the University of Urbino (@giadam.bsky.social, @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social and @brupar.bsky.social) went to Brazil to present and share their research findings at a variety of events. Find out what they did in this post.

grateful to @snurb.info for liveblogging my talk on elections, platforms & polarization at #AoIR2025🇧🇷 really nice summary of the key themes and questions discussed. read it here: snurb.info/node/3452

did we?! 👀

Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR

a barbárie como norma e implementada por "política pública de segurança"

Meta Content Library and API | Transparency Center Meta regularly publishes reports to give our community visibility into community standards enforcement, government requests and internet disruptions

Hi everyone, is anyone using the Meta Content Library API? I am specifically interested in getting in touch with people with API access, rather than access to the frontend only. transparency.meta.com/de-de/resear...

o Brasil é do povo brasileiro.

glad to be here at @qutdmrc.bsky.social as a visiting fellow for the next few months!

Presenting our research w/ @brupar.bsky.social & @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social this afternoon @ #SISCC2025 (Uni of Cagliari) exploring how emotional reactions and narratives fuel polarization and harm democratic debate in Facebook pro-Bolsonaro communities. Looking forward to discuss this!

best city 🤝 best conference

would be nice if folks named the specific contexts their research comes from too! that way, we might actually start to comprehend the complexity of different societies, instead of trying to explain everything through just one lens. we’re social scientists, after all!

phrases like “research indicates”, “findings suggest”, “evidence shows” etc. often come from US based scholarship that gets treated as universally applicable...

as a young researcher, I must admit that one of the challenges of studying a non-western context is that your work is almost always treated as a case study. you're expected to specify the country or context in your title... and your "case study" often ends up being seen as the exception to the rule

#AoIR2025 is shaping up! Excited to coordinate a panel on platform polarization in Latin America with @brupar.bsky.social, present my work on LLMs + Brazilian social media and on deceptive information operations on Facebook with @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social & team. Looking forward to it in Niterói! ☀️

Cover Image for: Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety AoIR Risky Research Working Group Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran, John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras, Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy, Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney Vowles, Michele White.

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.

aoir.org/riskyresearc...

Muere a los 89 años el expresidente de Uruguay José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, el revolucionario tranquilo El exguerrillero y símbolo de la izquierda latinoamericana fallece tras una larga lucha contra el cáncer. Su carisma y su capacidad de ser un oráculo de la austeridad y la sencillez fascinaron al mundo

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Muere a los 89 años el expresidente de Uruguay José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, el revolucionario tranquilo

🆕 Introducing the ✨PolComm ECR Club✨ – a new monthly online forum for early career researchers in political communication!

Organized by @olgaeisele.bsky.social & @alenakluknavska.bsky.social, this initiative is open to PhD students & postdocs (≤4 yrs post-PhD) in the ECPR or ECREA polcom sections!

National Science Foundation cancels research grants related to misinformation and disinformation Hundreds of grants, fellowships, and awards were terminated because they are no longer "aligned with NSF priorities."

What a disaster for scholars studying #disinformation, #misinformation, the spreading of information / narratives and such like in the US: the National Science Foundation cancels hundreds of respective research grants.

watching #SpaceForce after these last few months just makes so much sense now!

feliz por ter tido a honra de traduzir esse retrato da minha geração, tão poser e precária

Detecting coordinated behaviour on social media with veraAI A webinar series on innovative AI-based fact-checking tools from the veraAI project

We are democratizing coordinated sharing detection! 🚀 Join us to discover the graphical user interface that makes using CooRTweet even easier: tech.ebu.ch/events/2025/...

🚨Atenção que em junho vai ter curso de Bateson na UBU🚨

AI-Generated Images of Pope Francis Drive Traffic to Network of Suspicious Websites in Coordinated Campaign VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!

Researchers at Uni Urbino uncovered a significant #disinformation campaign on #Facebook pertaining to #PopeFrancis’ health. Here's what they found.
#InauthenticCoordinatedBehavior
By @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social, @giadam.bsky.social, @informativeicts.bsky.social @mterenzi.bsky.social.

In our latest investigation, we unveiled a large coordinated operation on Facebook employing AI-generated images to drive traffic to a network of traditional fake news websites. It's 2016 all over again 😱

I'm Still Here wins Best International Feature Film at the #Oscars

This is the first win for Brazil in this category.

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO Social media platforms can be effective tools for mainstreaming and transnationalization of radical positions. Anti-gender ideas have particularly gained traction transnationally in recent years. D...

#OutNow in #iCS
This study explores how CitizenGO uses social media to mainstream and transnationalize its agenda, revealing a sophisticated network for coordinating and amplifying anti-gender messages across languages and regions.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...

🥳 Congratulations to our colleagues
@nicolarighetti.bsky.social, @aytalina.bsky.social & @maikovska.bsky.social on their latest publication! Their study, w/ @brupar.bsky.social, Zsófia Cseri & Sofia Iriarte is now out in Information, Communication & Society 📖