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Seminar on Fake News - 21 November 2019


Date and time

Thursday 21. November 2019 at 15:00 to 18:00

Registration Deadline

Thursday 21. November 2019 at 14:00

Location

Ks54, Kilevej 14, 2000 Frederiksberg Ks54
Kilevej 14
2000 Frederiksberg

Seminar on Fake News - 21 November 2019


Event Description


The problem of Fake News and other problematic online content is one of our time’s most pressing challenges -- it is widely believed to have played a major role in the election of Trump and Brexit, and in general threatens the healthy functioning of news media in modern democracy. In this seminar, The Platform for Digital Transformation brings together practitioners and academic scholars from various disciplines, including information systems, economics, and computational linguistics, to better understand the phenomenon, and to develop research strategies to address it.


Program

15.00 Alan Dennis, Indiana University: Fake News on Social Media: Why We Fall for It and What We Can Do about It

15.30 Isabelle Augenstein, Copenhagen University: MultiFC: A Real-World Multi-Domain Dataset for Evidence-Based Fact Checking of Claims

16.00 Abayomi Baiyere and Daniel Hardt, CBS: Fake news and the importance of supporting evidence.

16.30 -- Panel Discussion --

17.00 -- Wine Reception --

 

The seminar can be joined remotely via this link

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